Radioactive microspheres aimed at prostate cancer: early safety trial underway
NCT ID NCT06192758
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Aug 27, 2026 · Updated 4 times
Summary
This early study tests the safety of TheraSphere PCa, tiny radioactive glass beads injected into the prostate to treat localized prostate cancer. The trial involves 36 men with favorable intermediate-risk cancer and aims to find the maximum safe radiation dose. Researchers will monitor side effects and adverse events over 90 days.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Yttrium-90 Glass Microspheres (TheraSphere PCa)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could offer a new, less invasive treatment option for localized prostate cancer using targeted radiation.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early feasibility study with only 36 participants, focused on safety and dosing. It is too small and early to know if it will be effective or widely applicable.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 36 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Apr 2024
- Expected to finish
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Oct 2032
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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50 years and older
- Sex
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Male participants only
- 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.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Subject has ability to comprehend and willingness to sign and date the IRB-approved study informed consent form (ICF), and to comply with the study testing, procedures, and follow-up schedule. 2. Histologic confirmation of adenocarcinoma of the prostate by MR-fusion biopsy. Referral biopsy for eligibility must be completed between 180 days and 6 weeks prior to mapping procedure. 3. Subject with favorable intermediate risk clinically localized prostate cancer defined per NCCN Guidelines version 3.2022 as follows: * Favorable intermediate-risk has all the following: * i. One Intermediate Risk Factor (IRF): 1. cT2b-cT2c 2. Grade Group 2 or 3 3. PSA 10-20 ng/mL * ii. Grade Group 1 or 2 * iii. \<50% biopsy cores positive (e.g., \<6 of 12 cores) 4. Staging MRI must confirm American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC, 8th edition) stage T1, T2a, T2b or T2c. 5. Whole prostate gland volume ≥ 60 cc (measured on MRI) 6. International Prostate Score Symptom (I-PSS) ≤ 18 7. Estimated life expectancy of \>5 years according to NCCN guideline's tools (NCCN v03.2022) who has declined or is ineligible for Standard of Care treatments (observation, active surveillance, surgery, and radiation therapies \[brachytherapy/external beam radiation therapy\]) 8. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status 0-2 9. Angiographic inclusion criteria: * a. Type I to IV prostate artery origins on both hemiglands.1 * b. No evidence of procedure limiting vascular abnormalities (aneurysms, stenosis, shunt, fistula, occlusion) or morphologic asymmetric single prostate artery on either side (hemigland) * c. Bilaterally accessible solitary prostatic arteries. * d. Complete perfusion of the prostate gland via a single dominant vessel for each hemigland 10. Have adequate organ and bone marrow function within 30 days prior to index procedure, as defined below: * a. International Normalized Ratio (INR) ≤ 1.2 (in absence of anticoagulation) * b. Platelets ≥ 75,000/L * c. GFR ≥ 40 mL/min/1.73m2 * d. Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) ≥ 1.5 x 109/L * e. Hemoglobin (Hgb) ≥ 9.0 g/dL (Note: the use of transfusion or other intervention to achieve adequate bone marrow function is acceptable * f. ALT/AST ≤ 5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) * g. Bilirubin ≤ 2 mg/dL 11. Patients with known Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection are eligible with well controlled HIV infection, no current or previous AIDS-related complications and CD4+ T-cell (CD4+) counts ≥ 350 cells/uL Exclusion Criteria: 1. Direct evidence of regional or distant metastases after appropriate staging studies per NCCN guidelines (v03.2022) 2. Histological evidence of intraductal features 3. Previous treatments (pelvic radiotherapy, surgery, prostate artery embolization \[PAE\], transurethral resection of the prostate \[TURP\] or previous/ planned hormonal therapy 4. History of Crohn's Disease, ulcerative colitis, or ataxia telangiectasia, current gross haematuria, or current urinary catheter 5. Subjects with ongoing urinary tract infection, prostate abscess, prostatitis, or neurogenic bladder 6. Prior significant rectal surgery (haemorrhoidectomy is acceptable) 7. Prior invasive malignancy unless disease free for a minimum of 3 years. Exceptions to this requirement include adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer or lentigo maligna or carcinoma in situ without evidence of disease 8. Hip prosthesis 9. Medical contraindication to undergo contrast-enhanced angiography, CT scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or arterial catheterization, or known history of hypersensitivity reactions to iodinated and gadolinium-based contrast product 10. Angiographic exclusion criteria: * a. Perfusion to tissues outside the Planning Target Volume (PTV) that cannot be corrected by placement of the catheter distal to collateral vessels or the application of standard angiographic techniques, such as coil embolization * b. Type V prostatic artery origin on either side
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, Illinois, 60611, United States
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