Clinical trial · Interventional
Combination of 68Ga-PSMA PET Data With Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Data (MRS) for Evaluating Prostate Cancer
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among man and the fourth most occurring over all . Characterization and management of the diagnosed prostate cancer is a challenging task due to its clinically and morphologically diversity. Clinically, this cancer range from indolent growing slowly malignancy, which does not threatened the patient life, to aggressive tumor that metastasize rapidly with very bad prognosis. Therapy of prostate cancer ranges from a "watch and wait" approach to hormone deprivation therapy to aggressive surgical, radiation, and cryosurgical therapies depending on the cancer characteristics. Prostate cancer is diagnosed using digital rectal examination, serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing and transrectal ultrasonography (US)-guided biopsies . Imaging technologies have been adapted as a non-invasive method to obtain a comprehensive assessment of the disease. MRI is widely used and more specifically multiparameter MRI (mMRI) for detection, staging and tumor localization. mMRI uses multiphase modes including diffusion-weighted and dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging in addition to T2-weighted imaging to identify and classify cancer type . Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) is MRI technique that allow detection of tissue metabolic composition which is occasionally used to characterize prostate cancer, however is not used as a standard procedure. By suppression of water and fat signal, MRS sequence can detect relationship between lower concentration prostatic metabolites such as citrate, choline, creatine, and polyamines in the cell cytosol and in the extra cellular ducts. Other imaging modalities used to characterize prostate cancer include ultrasound (US), computerized tomography (CT), functional imaging like bone scanning (BS) and hybrid imaging like choline based positron emission tomography and CT (PET/CT). However all of these modalities show disappointing sensitivity .
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prostate Cancer | Malignant Prostate Neoplasm | CURATED_EXACT | 0.92 |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| PET/MR scan | Diagnostic Test | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- prostate cancer Patients
- description
- patients over the age of 18 with diagnosed prostate cancer at different stages of the disease.
- interventionNames
- Diagnostic Test: PET/MR scan
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Patients who preformed 68Ga-PSMA for staging prostate cancer.
- timeFrame
- 1 year
- description
- Investigate implication of combining 68Ga-PSMA PET data and MRS data on staging and monitoring of prostate cancer
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Male
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 120 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: 1.patients over the age of 18 with diagnosed prostate cancer at different stages of the disease. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients younger than 18 years 2. contraindication to MRI or to intravenous gadolinium injection.
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