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Clinical Trial Evaluating Safety of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid (5-ALA) Combined With CV01 Delivery of Ultrasound for Sonodynamic Therapy (SDT) in Patients With Newly Diagnosed High-Grade Glioma (HGG) Prior to Resection and Standard Adjuvant Therapy (ALA SDT GLIOMA 401)

A Phase 1 Single Center Clinical Trial Evaluating Safety of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid (5-ALA) Combined With CV01 Delivery of Ultrasound for Sonodynamic Therapy (SDT) in Patients With Newly Diagnosed High-Grade Glioma (HGG) Prior to Resection and Standard Adjuvant Therapy

Status
Completed
Phases
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06665724
Enrollment
16
Registered
2024-10-30
Start date
2025-01-27
Completion date
2026-02-09
Last updated
2026-02-27

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Conditions

Anaplastic Astrocytoma (AA), Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma (AO), Glioblastoma (GBM)

Keywords

newly diagnosed high-grade glioma, sonodynamic therapy

Brief summary

This trial is designed to evaluate safety and explore possible efficacy of 5-aminolevulinic acid hydrochloride (5-ALA HCl, Gliolan®) with CV01 delivery of ultrasound for sonodynamic therapy in patients with newly diagnosed high-grade glioma prior to resection and standard adjuvant therapy. The study will accrue 10 evaluable high-grade glioma patients. Patients who qualify will receive sonodynamic therapy (5 ALA combined with CV01-delivered sonication) 2 to 5 days prior to standard resection, with one study magnetic resonance imaging being performed between sonodynamic therapy and resection. Resection will be followed by standard radio-/chemotherapy. All patients will be followed up in-study for toxicities and adverse events for 28 days.

Interventions

Patients will receive 5-Aminolevulinic acid hydrochloride via oral administration (20 mg/kg) 6-8 hours before CV01 treatment.

DEVICECV01

Ultrasound will be delivered 6-8 hours after administration of 5-aminolevulinic acid hydrochloride. A total of 12 fields will be treated (10 treatment sites across the hemisphere with 2 additional treatments over areas of increased enhancement).

Sponsors

Universität Münster
Lead SponsorOTHER
Alpheus Medical, Inc.
CollaboratorINDUSTRY

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

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

Inclusion criteria

1. Age ≥ 18 years 2. WHO Performance Status of 0-2 3. Patients with cranial MRI displaying typical features of high-grade glioma on imaging or histologically proven high-grade glioma including GBM, anaplastic astrocytoma (AA), anaplastic oligodendroglioma (AO). No previous tumor specific treatment such as surgery (apart from biopsy), radio- or chemotherapy, antiangiogenic or immunotherapy. 4. Planned debulking or cytoreductive surgery 5. The following laboratory values at study entry 1. Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1500 cells/mm3 2. Platelet count ≥ 100,000 cells/mm3 3. Hemoglobin (Hgb) \> 10g/dL 4. AST and ALT ≤ 2.5 x Upper Limit of Normal (ULN) 5. Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN 6. Creatine clearance (CrCL) as estimated by Cockcroft-Gault equation of ≥ 40 mL/min 7. Blood clotting within acceptable limits according to investigator 6. For female and male patients and their female partners of childbearing/reproductive potential: Willingness to apply highly effective contraception (Pearl index \<1) during the entire study and in female patients for 6 months after the last application of Gliolan® and in male patients and their female partners for 3 months after the last application of Gliolan®. 7. Ability to understand and provide informed consent

Exclusion criteria

1. Infra-tentorial tumors 2. Patients who have clinically significant edema or tumor mass effect requiring urgent intervention (e.g., surgery, initiation of steroids, escalating doses of steroids) 3. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding 4. Inability to undergo MRI or receive gadolinium (Gd) 5. Hypersensitivity to 5-ALA or porphyrins 6. Average skull thickness at the treatment field \> 10 mm from standard navigation CTs. The treatment field is defined as the various locations on the head where the transducer will be coupled to the patient. The average skull thickness at each treatment field will be determined through post-processing the thin cut head computed tomography (CT) scan (without contrast). 7. Hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke (including transient ischemic attacks) and central nervous system bleeding in the preceding 6 months that are not related to glioma biopsy. History of prior intratumoral bleeding is not an exclusion criterion; however, all patient's navigation CTs will be reviewed for the presence of fresh blood. 8. Participation in another interventional clinical trial during this trial or within 4 weeks before entry into this trial 9. Known acute or chronic types of porphyria 10. Gastrointestinal disorder that negatively affects absorption 11. Known active hepatitis B or C (Note: testing is not required) 12. Known Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection (Note: testing is not required) 13. Unable to avoid photosensitising drugs (eg, St. John's wort, griseofulvin, thiazide diuretics, sulfonylureas, phenothiazines, sulfonamides, quinolones, and tetracyclines) for up to 2 weeks following 5-ALA administration 14. Any other concurrent severe and/or uncontrolled concomitant medical condition that could compromise participation in the study (e.g, clinically significant pulmonary disease, clinically significant psychiatric or neurological disorder, active or uncontrolled infection) 15. Diagnosis of other invasive cancer (except basal cell carcinoma/squamous cell carcinoma of the skin) within the last 5 years; adequately treated carcinoma in situ is allowed 16. Patient has a condition the investigator believes would interfere with the ability to provide informed consent or comply with study instructions, or that might confound the interpretation of the study results or put the patient at undue risk 17. Patients who are dependent on the sponsor, investigator or trial site 18. Patients who are committed to an institution by virtue of an order issued either by the judicial or the administrative authorities

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Safety and tolerabilityFrom the time the informed consent is signed until 28 days following administration of sonodynamic therapy (end of trial participation)Clinical safety and tolerability will be assessed based on the observation of adverse events (AEs). Adverse events will be graded as per the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v5.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Radiological changesChanges from visit 1 (< 8 days before sonodynamic therapy) to visit 3 (2 to 5 days after sonodynamic therapy)Radiological changes (MRI) of Tumor volume, Volume of FLAIR hyperintensity, Volume of cyctotoxic edema, Relative cerebral blood volume and Leakage
Histopathological efficacyBiopsies will be collected during standard surgery.Anti-tumor activity assessed by Number of cells / mm³ with antibodies against IBA1 and Number of cells / mm³ with antibodies against Caspase III

Countries

Germany

Contacts

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORWalter Stummer, Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.

Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany, 48149

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 28, 2026