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Evaluation of 18F-FDOPA PET-CT in the Preoperative Initial Assessment of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma (TEPCMT)

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Public Assistance-Hospitals of Marseille (AP-HM)

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma

Treatments

Other: PET at 18F-FDOPA

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03636945
2018-10

Details and patient eligibility

About

Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) develops at the expense of calcitonin cells and is often characterized by lymph node metastases and sometimes visceral metastases. Improvement of preoperative diagnosis is of major importance in CMT because the quality of the initial surgery determines the prognosis. In recent years, 18F-fluorodihydroxyphenylalanine (18F-FDOPA) PET / CT was considered the most sensitive functional imaging tool in the evaluation of persistent CMT. To date, 18F-FDOPA PET at initial diagnosis has been reported in a few clinical cases.

The main objective is to demonstrate that 18F-FDOPA PET provides additional information compared to conventional imaging on the initial diagnosis of CMT patients.

The secondary objectives are to describe the nature of the information provided by PET / CT imaging, the main factors influencing tracer uptake and the positivity of PET / CT, and the impact of the examination on the care of the patient.

This is a prospective, multicenter and open study.

Patients with TCM who have serum calcitonin> 150 pg / ml at initial diagnosis and have performed baseline imaging examinations within the last 3 months will be included in the study . A PET at 18F-FDOPA will be performed according to a very powerful acquisition protocol. Image analysis will be performed blindly from the results of conventional imaging. All exams will be compared, in accordance with the gold standard. Therapeutic intentions will be collected before and after the PET imaging, as well as the actual management in place.

Full description

Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) develops at the expense of calcitonin cells and is often characterized by lymph node metastases (> 50% of cases) and sometimes visceral metastases (> 5%). Improvement of preoperative diagnosis is of major importance in CMT because the quality of the initial surgery determines the prognosis. In recent years, 18F-fluorodihydroxyphenylalanine (18F-FDOPA) PET / CT was considered the most sensitive functional imaging tool in the evaluation of persistent CMT. To date, 18F-FDOPA PET at initial diagnosis has been reported in a few clinical cases. Preliminary study, which included 9 CMT patients, 18F-FDOPA PET showed very promising results during the initial diagnosis, particularly in node staging.

The main objective is to demonstrate that 18F-FDOPA PET provides additional information compared to conventional imaging on the initial diagnosis of CMT patients. The secondary objectives are to describe the nature of the information provided by PET / CT imaging, the main factors influencing tracer uptake and the positivity of PET / CT, and the impact of the examination on the care of the patient.

This is a prospective, multicenter and open study.

Patients with TCM who have serum calcitonin> 150 pg / ml at initial diagnosis and have performed baseline imaging examinations (as recommended by the 2015 ATA) within the last 3 months will be included in the study . A PET at 18F-FDOPA will be performed according to a very powerful acquisition protocol. Image analysis will be performed blindly from the results of conventional imaging. All exams will be compared, in accordance with the gold standard. Therapeutic intentions will be collected before and after the PET imaging, as well as the actual management in place.

Number of patients expected: 62. Duration of the study: 29 months of inclusion and 7 months of follow-up.

About 60 to 70 patients with a CMT are operated annually in the centers involved. Nuclear physicians, endocrine surgeons, endocrinologists and anatomopathologists work together in institutional and interinstitutional team meetings (SFE-RENATEN). Some of the centers have already collaborated on the implementation of a large PHRC-INCa project recently published in the JCEM.

Enrollment

62 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Major patient, affiliated to a social security scheme and having signed a written consent

  • Patients with CMT (initial diagnosis)

  • Serum calcitonin> 150 μg / ml

  • Patient who had the baseline imaging assessment during the 3 months preceding the 18F-FDOPA PET scan (as recommended by the 2015 ATA (11)), according to the serum calcitonin level:

    • 150 <Calcitonin <500: cervical ultrasound + cervico-thoracic CT scan
    • Calcitonin ≥500: cervical ultrasound, cervico-thoracoabdominopelvic CT scan, bone MRI.

Exclusion criteria

  • Pregnant women (positive pregnancy test) or lactating women can not be included.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Diagnostic

Allocation

N/A

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

62 participants in 1 patient group

Medullary thyroid carcinoma
Experimental group
Description:
Patients with MTC who have serum calcitonin\> 150 pg / ml at initial diagnosis and have performed baseline imaging examinations within the last 3 months will be included in the study A PET at 18F-FDOPA will be performed according to a very powerful acquisition protocol
Treatment:
Other: PET at 18F-FDOPA

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

david TAIEB, MD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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