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Implantable Microdevice for the Delivery of Drugs and Their Effect on Tumors in Patients With Metastatic or Recurrent Sarcoma

Pilot Trial of an Implantable Microdevice for In Vivo Drug Sensitivity Testing in Patients With Sarcomas

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04199026
Enrollment
20
Registered
2019-12-13
Start date
2025-02-25
Completion date
2028-12-31
Last updated
2026-02-19

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Metastatic Sarcoma, Recurrent Sarcoma, Resectable Sarcoma

Brief summary

This early phase I trial studies the side effects of implanting and removing a microdevice in patients with sarcomas that have spread to other places in the body (metastatic) or have come back (recurrent). Microdevices are rice-sized devices that are implanted into tumor tissue and are loaded with 10 different drugs that are delivered at very small doses, or "microdoses," which may only affect a very small, local area inside the tumor. The purpose of this study is to determine which drugs delivered in the microdevice affect tumor tissue in patients with sarcomas.

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. Assess the safety of drug delivery microdevice (microdevice) placement and removal in subjects undergoing resection of sarcoma. II. Determine the technical feasibility of microdevice placement and removal with intact surrounding tissue in subjects undergoing resection of a sarcoma. SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: I. Use the intratumoral cellular response to evaluate individual agents and/or drug combinations released from the microdevice reservoirs to assess the relative drug efficacy across all individual agents or drug combinations tested using the microdevice technology. EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES: I. Evaluate the microdevice performance for its capacity to predict Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) response in the subset of patients that receive systemic chemotherapies as part of their standard-of-care or clinical trial treatments. II. Determine genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic predictive biomarkers from resected specimens that correlate with local (i.e. microdevice-based) and systemic drug response. III. Determine, at a single-cell level, proteomic traits associated with chemosensitivity versus (vs.) resistance using mathematical notions of network robustness and fragility. OUTLINE: Patients undergo percutaneous implantation of up to 3 drug delivery microdevices up to 2 days before standard of care surgery. Patients receive doxorubicin hydrochloride, ifosfamide, vincristine, irinotecan, temozolomide, pazopanib, everolimus, polyethylene glycol, ganitumab, and temsirolimus via the microdevice in the absence of unacceptable toxicity. At the time of surgery 2 days later, patients have the drug delivery microdevice(s) removed. Conditions Conditions: Metastatic Sarcoma Recurrent Sarcoma

Interventions

DRUGDoxorubicin

Given via microdevice

DRUGDoxorubicin Hydrochloride

Given via microdevice

DEVICEDrug Delivery Microdevice

Undergo percutaneous implantation of drug delivery microdevice

DRUGEverolimus

Given via microdevice

BIOLOGICALGanitumab

Given via microdevice

DRUGIfosfamide

Given via microdevice

DRUGIrinotecan

Given via microdevice

DRUGPazopanib

Given via microdevice

DRUGPolyethylene Glycol

Given via microdevice

DRUGTemozolomide

Given via microdevice

DRUGTemsirolimus

Given via microdevice

PROCEDURETherapeutic Conventional Surgery

Undergo standard of care surgery

DRUGVincristine

Given via microdevice

Sponsors

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Lead SponsorOTHER
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
CollaboratorNIH

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
DEVICE_FEASIBILITY
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
10 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion: * Patients with a biopsy-confirmed recurrent or metastatic sarcoma for which surgery is indicated as a standard of care. * 10 years of age or older * Documented, signed, dated informed consent to participate in the microdevice study * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of =\< 2 Exclusion: * Subjects who do not wish to undergo surgical resection, or those who are high-risk or not candidates for surgical resection * Age \< 10 years old * Women of childbearing potential without a negative pregnancy test; or women who are lactating * Allergies or prior adverse drug reactions to any of the drugs loaded within the microdevice.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Determination of the safety and technical feasibility of microdevice insertion/removal, as assessed by adverse events by CTCAE 5.0.Up to 1 yearAssess the safety of microdevice placement and removal in subjects undergoing resection of sarcoma.
To assess efficacy across all individual agents or drug combinations tested using the microdevice technology.Up to 1 yearThe primary outcome measure is the number of participants that experience a grade 3 or 4 adverse event, as defined by CTCAE 5.0. A second primary outcome measure of device technical feasibility measures the number of devices that successfully generate high-quality data from each of at least 50% of the patients enrolled. A successful device is one that generated high-quality data from at least 40% of the drugs in the device by IHC and/or other methodologies

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Determine the drug antineoplastic drug effects observed in the adjacent tumor tissues following exposure to drug micro-doses released by each microdevice reservoir.Up to 1 yearThe degree of cell apoptosis and cell proliferation observed in the adjacent tumor tissues will be compared for the placebo control (i.e. PEG) to gauge the antineoplastic effect elicited by each of the drug micro-doses released by the respective microdevice reservoirs.

Countries

United States

Contacts

CONTACTJoseph A Ludwig, MD
jaludwig@mdanderson.org713-792-3626
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORJoseph Ludwig, MD

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 20, 2026