Evaluating AGuIX® Nanoparticles in Combination With Stereotactic Radiation for Brain Metastases (NANOSTEREO)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04094077 |
Recruitment Status :
Active, not recruiting
First Posted : September 18, 2019
Last Update Posted : November 23, 2020
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Brain Metastases | Drug: AGuIX | Phase 2 |
AGuIX® (Activation and Guidance of Irradiation by X-ray, NH TherAguix) are Gadolinium chelated polysiloxane based nanoparticles with Magnetic Resonance contrast properties, able to accumulate in the tumor through the enhanced permeability and retention effect and sufficiently small (sub-5 nm diameter) to allow for renal clearance.
AGuIX® nanomedicine can be used as:
- Positive contrast agent for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). It displays higher efficacy than commercial contrast agents and so it can be used to delineate precisely the tumors.
- A booster of Radiotherapy during the radiotherapy protocol, after the localization of the tumor.
This is permitted by the high radiosensitizing potential of AGuIX® that allows a local increase of efficacy of X-ray damages. French and international groups have demonstrated the radiosensitizer effect of AGuIX® to improve the efficacy of radiotherapy.
Thanks to a difference in porosity between the vascular networks, AGuIX® penetrates and resides in tumor tissues, but not in healthy tissues.
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 55 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Intervention Model Description: | This study is a paucicentric, single arm Phase II trial conducted according to a single stage Fleming-A'Hern design and aiming to evaluate the efficacy of AGuIX® during FSRT of brain metastasis. |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase II Study Evaluating AGuIX® Nanoparticles in Combination With Stereotactic Radiation for Oligo Brain Metastases. |
Actual Study Start Date : | January 17, 2020 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | April 2021 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | April 2022 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Aguix + Stereotactic Radiation |
Drug: AGuIX
2 IV injections (100 mg/Kg/injection) at day 4 and day 8 + Strereotactic Radiation from day 8 to day 15 as per standard practice. |
- Rate of local control [ Time Frame: 1 year ]The primary endpoint is the rate of local control defined as the proportion of patients with a complete response, a partial response or a stable disease. Response of Brain lesion will be evaluated using the RECIST classifications with partial response (PR, > 30% decrease in longest diameter), stable disease (SD <30% decrease and <20% increase in longest diameter), progressive disease (PD > 20% increase in longest diameter) and Complete response (CR) (complete disappearance of the brain lesion).
- Distant Brain failure [ Time Frame: 6 month and at 1 year ]Distant Brain failure is defined as the presence of new brain metastases or leptomeningeal enhancement outside the irradiated volume.
- Time to brain relapse [ Time Frame: 6 month and 1 year ]The event of interest will be the local progression on any irradiated lesion.
- Tumor target volume [ Time Frame: 4 days ]The Tumor target volume agreement is the comparison between both the MRI images with AGuIX® and Gd-chelates. It is defined as the correlation between the irradiation volume calculated based on the MRI before nanoparticles injection and the volume calculated after nanoparticles injection.
- Brain lesion 3-D volume variation [ Time Frame: 45 days and 3 month ]Brain lesion 3-D volume variation will be analysed using volumetric T1 post-gadolinium MRI.
- Adverse events [ Time Frame: From Day 1 to Day 45 ]The assessment of safety will be based mainly on the frequency of adverse events based on the common toxicity criteria (CTCAE-V5.0) grade.
- FACT-Br [ Time Frame: 45 days, 3 month, 6 month, 9 month and 12 month ]The FACT-Br consists of a general version (FACT-G) and a brain subscale (BRCS). The FACT-G consist of 27 questions with 4 domains assessing physical well-being (score range: 0-28), social/family well-being (score range: 0-28), emotional well-being (score range: 0-24) and functional well-being (score range: 0-28). The BRCs is a 23-item questionnaire related to neurological concerns that provides an additional set of disease-specific questions pertaining to brain neoplasms (score range: 0-92). The FACT-Br total score is the sum of the FACT-G total score and the BrCS score. Positive change scores indicate improved quality of life.
- MMSE [ Time Frame: 45 days, 3 month, 6 month, 9 month and 12 month ]The MMSE is an 11-item measure that tests five areas of cognitive function: orientation, registration, attention and calculation, recall and language. The minimum score is 0 and the maximum score is 30 with higher MMSE scores indicating better cognition.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or female patients aged of at least 18 years on day of signing informed consent.
- Histologically-confirmed diagnosis of any histological type of solid tumors, excluding primary central nervous system (CNS) tumors.
- Radiological evidence by MRI : At least one and a maximum of 5 brain metastases, and at least one brain lesion with a longest diameter ≥ 2 cm and eligible for FSRT.
- Patient without progression on extracranial disease documented by radiological assessment as per RECIST v1.1 within 4 weeks before inclusion.
- For patients treated with a systemic anti-cancer therapy: a minimal 2-week washout period is required from the date of last systemic treatment administration to Day 1, except for hormonal agents.
- ECOG Performance Status (PS) ≤2.
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1.0 G/L, Platelets ≥ 75 G/L, Hemoglobin ≥ 8 g/dL, Serum creatinine OR Creatinine clearance according to CKD-EPI ≤ 1.5 x Upper Limit of Normal (ULN) OR ≥ 50 mL/min/1.73m2, ASAT and ALAT ≤ 3 x ULN (or ≤ 5.0 ULN in case of liver metastasis or hepatic infiltration),INR and Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (aPTT) ≤1.5 x ULN.
- Women of child-bearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test at screening and must agree to use 2 effective forms of contraception from the time of the negative pregnancy test up to 3 months after the last dose of the study drug.
- Fertile men must agree to use contraceptive measures up to 3 months after the last dose of study drug.
- Patients who understand, sign, and date the written voluntary informed consent form at the screening visit prior to any protocol-specific procedures. Patient should be able and willing to comply with study visits and procedures as per protocol.
- Patients must be covered by a medical insurance.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Prior local treatment with radiotherapy (whole / partial brain or stereotactic radiosurgery) or surgical resection of brain lesions.
- Patient participating to another clinical trial with an investigational agent.
- Patients who have not recovered from significant adverse events (i.e. Grade > 2 AE according to NCI CTCAE v5.0) due to prior treatment with anti-cancer agents with exception of any Grade alopecia or lab values presented in inclusion criteria.
- Contra-indication for MRI enhanced with gadolinium (e.g. cardiac pacemaker, implanted defibrillator, certain cardiac valve replacements, certain metal implants).
- Patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding.

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT04094077
France | |
Centre Léon Bérard | |
Lyon, France, 69008 | |
Centre Antoine Lacassagne | |
Nice, France, 06189 |
Responsible Party: | Centre Leon Berard |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT04094077 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
ET18-270 NANOSTEREO |
First Posted: | September 18, 2019 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | November 23, 2020 |
Last Verified: | April 2020 |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: | No |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: | No |
Stereotactic Radiation Nanoparticles |
Neoplasm Metastasis Brain Neoplasms Neoplastic Processes Neoplasms Pathologic Processes Central Nervous System Neoplasms |
Nervous System Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Nervous System Diseases |