Radioactive drug lutathera tested in teens with rare cancers
NCT ID NCT04711135
First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study is testing a radioactive drug called Lutathera in teenagers aged 12 to 17 who have rare tumors of the digestive system or adrenal glands. The goal is to see if the drug is safe and how much radiation reaches organs. Eleven teens are taking part, and researchers are watching for side effects and measuring radiation doses.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Lutathera (a radioactive drug given by IV)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could provide a new treatment option for teenagers with rare neuroendocrine tumors and related cancers that are hard to treat.
- What could go wrong
- This is a very small, early-phase study with only 11 participants, so results may not apply to all patients. The drug is radioactive and can cause side effects like kidney or bone marrow damage.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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11 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Aug 2022
- Expected to finish
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Feb 2034
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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12 to 17 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Key Inclusion Criteria: 1. GEP-NET cohort: presence of metastasized or locally advanced, inoperable (curative intent), histologically proven, G1 or G2 (Ki-67 index =\< 20%), well differentiated GEP-NET. or PPGL cohort: presence of metastasized or locally advanced, inoperable (curative intent), histologically proven PPGL. 2. Patients from 12 to \< 18 years of age at the time of enrollment. 3. Expression of somatostatin receptors confirmed by a somatostatin receptor imaging (SRI) modality within 3 months prior to enrollment, with tumor uptake observed in the target lesions more or equal to the normal liver uptake. 4. Performance status as determined by Karnofsky score \>= 50 or Lansky Play-Performance Scale score \>= 50. 5. Parent's ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document for adolescents as determined by local regulations. Adolescents will sign assent along with parental/legal guardian consent or will co-sign consent with parent/legal guardian in accordance with local regulation, prior to participation in the study. Key Exclusion Criteria: 1. Laboratory parameters: 1. Estimated creatinine clearance calculated by the Cockroft-Gault method \< 70 mL/min 2. Hb concentration \<5.0 mmol/L (\<8.0 g/dL); WBC \<2x109/L; platelets \<75x109/L. 3. Total bilirubin \>3 x ULN for age. 4. Serum albumin \<3.0 g/dL unless prothrombin time is within the normal range. 2. Established or suspected pregnancy. 3. Breastfeeding female patients unless they accept to discontinue breastfeeding from the 1st dose until 3 months after the last administration of study drug. 4. Female patients of child-bearing potential, unless they are using highly effective methods of contraception during treatment and for 6 months after the last dose of Lutathera. 5. Sexually active male patients, unless they agree to remain abstinent or be willing to use effective methods of contraception. 6. Patients for whom in the opinion of the investigator other therapeutic options are considered more appropriate than the therapy offered in the study, based on patient and disease characteristics. 7. Current spontaneous urinary incontinence. 8. Other known co-existing malignancies except non-melanoma skin cancer and carcinoma in situ of the uterine cervix, unless definitively treated and proven no evidence of recurrence for 5 years. 9. Hypersensitivity to the study drug active substance or to any of the excipients. 10. Patients with any other significant medical, psychiatric, or surgical condition, currently uncontrolled by treatment, which may interfere with the completion of the study. 11. Patient with known incompatibility to CT Scans with I.V. contrast due to allergic reaction or renal insufficiency. If such a patient can be imaged with MRI, then the patient would not be excluded. 12. Patients who received any investigational agent within the last 30 days.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Centre Léon Berard
Lyon, France
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States
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Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati, Ohio, 45229-3039, United States
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Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
Barcelona, Spain
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Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
Gliwice, Poland
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University College Hospital of London
London, United Kingdom
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University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky, 40536, United States
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