NCT01426074

DCE-MRI PET Bevacizumab Study in Rectal Cancer

A Phase II/Pharmacodynamic Study of Preoperative or Definitive FOLFOX Plus Bevacizumab, With the Additional Pharmacodynamic Goal of Assessing Tumor Blood Flow as Measured by Dynamic Contrast-enhanced MRI, and the Induction of Hypoxia and Apoptosis as Measured by PET in Patients With Rectal Cancer

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will determine the following: the response rate (including pathological CR rate), TTP, and complications of treatment in patients with rectal cancer treated with FOLFOX bevacizumab, the alteration of tumor blood flow (assessed by DCE-MRI as percentage change in Ktrans) after 1 cycle of bevacizumab therapy compared to baseline value in patients treated with FOLFOX alone and those treated with bevacizumab at 5 mg/kg., the degree of hypoxis (measured by tumor uptake of the 2-nitroimidazole EF5) induced by bevacizumab treatment and its relationship to changes in tumor blood flow, and the degree of apoptosis (measured by tumor uptake of di-annexin V) induced by bevacizumab treatment and its relationship to changes in tumor blood flow.

Detailed description

The primary objectives of this study will determine the following: the response rate (including pathological CR rate), TTP, and complications of treatment in patients with rectal cancer treated with FOLFOX bevacizumab, the alteration of tumor blood flow (assessed by DCE-MRI as percentage change in Ktrans) after 1 cycle of bevacizumab therapy compared to baseline value in patients treated with FOLFOX alone and those treated with bevacizumab at 5 mg/kg., the degree of hypoxis (measured by tumor uptake of the 2-nitroimidazole EF5) induced by bevacizumab treatment and its relationship to changes in tumor blood flow, and the degree of apoptosis (measured by tumor uptake of di-annexin V) induced by bevacizumab treatment and its relationship to changes in tumor blood flow. The secondary objectives of this study is to determine in an exploratory fashion the relationship between tumor blood flow, hypoxia induction, and apoptosis induction , and time to progression in patients continuing on to receive Bevacizumab 5 mg/kg, to analyze archival tumor from the patients treated in this trial for mutations in the MKK7 and SEK1 genes, and by semi-quantitative IHC for these and other relevant proteins, to determine the relationship between vascular proliferation as measured by DCE-MRI and markers of endothelial cell proliferation, and to obtain pilot data on whether assays that measure vascular endothelial cell mitogenic stimulation and mitogenic activity may predict response to therapy, time to progression and overall survival in patients receiving bevacizumab 5 mg/kg.

Conditions

• Rectal Cancer Patients

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Bevacizumab 5 mg/kg	Intravenously every two weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-08-01
• Primary completion: 2014-06-11
• Completion: 2014-06-11
• First posted: 2011-08-31
• Last updated: 2018-08-21