Imaging Brain Tumors With FACBC and Methionine

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Brain Cancer, CNS Cancer

In brief

This research protocol makes pictures of brain tumors. The pictures are made with a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner. PET scans use radioactivity to "see" cancer cells. We are using a new kind of PET scan. The new PET scan is called \[18F\]-FACBC PET. We will compare this to the standard PET scan. The standard PET scan is called \[11C\]-methionine PET. We expect these pictures will give us information about your tumor. We also hope to collect information about the amount of radioactivity exposure. We will measure radioactivity exposure to your tumor, brain and other organs. The research study results will be used to support the submission of an investigational new drug (IND) application to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00597246

Run by

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

People needed

30

Starts

2003-05-13

Expected to finish

2019-11-27

Last updated by the study team

2020-12-17

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Registered patient at MSKCC.
• Child-bearing age females must be non-pregnant, non-lactating, and must be using adequate contraception or surgically sterile.
• Karnofsky score of 60 or greater.
• Children that can sit still for 60-90 minutes, without sedation, will be included in this protocol.

You may not qualify if…

• Patient cannot tolerate lying still for 90 minute sessions in the PET tomograph.

Where it is running

• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — New York, New York, United States

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