Choline PET/CT and MRI for Targeted Prostate Biopsy

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Conditions studied: Prostate Cancer

In brief

This research study will access the using of a radiotracer, 18F-choline PET/CT and MRI for prostate cancer in patients undergoing diagnostic prostate biopsy. Patients receive MRI guided prostate biopsies and metabolomic profiling of prostate biopsy tissues.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01751737

Run by

University of Michigan

People needed

63

Starts

2012-11-01

Expected to finish

2017-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-10-03

Who can join

Age: 40 and older. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Males 40 years of age or older scheduled for prostate biopsy (for known or suspected prostate cancer) followed by planned prostatectomy (population group A)
• Males 40 years of age or older with known (biopsy-confirmed) primary adenocarcinoma of the prostate undergoing active surveillance scheduled for prostate biopsy (population group B)

You may not qualify if…

• Androgen ablation (hormone treatment) within the last 3 months
• Prostate biopsy within 6 weeks prior to PET or MRI imaging
• Active inflammatory bowel disease within the last 6 months
• Acute prostatitis within the last 6 months
• A non-urologic bacterial infection requiring active treatment with antibiotics
• Active other malignancy (except basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer) within the last 2 years
• Previous radiation treatment of the pelvis
• Symptomatic distal rectal stenosis
• Known hypersensitivity to glucagon
• Pheochromocytoma, insulinoma or galactosemia
• Insulin-dependent diabetes

Where it is running

• University of Michigan Health Systems — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

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