Advanced Accelerator Applications is currently pursuing marketing approval for177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate (Lutathera). This expanded access therapeutic protocol aimsto allow patients suffering from inoperable, somatostatin receptor positive,neuroendocrine tumors, progressive under somatostatin analogue therapy to access theinvestigational product, 177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate (Lutathera), prior to its commercialavailability.
Advanced Accelerator Applications activated in 2012 a multicenter, stratified, open,
randomized, comparator-controlled, parallel-group Phase III study comparing treatment
with 177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate to 60 mg Octreotide LAR in patients with inoperable,
progressive, somatostatin receptor positive, midgut carcinoid tumors (NETTER-1 trial,
EudraCT number 2011-005049-11, IND number 77219).
Clinical studies, including NETTER-1 for which the primary analysis has been conducted,
showed clinical evidence of safety and effectiveness to support the expanded access use
without any unreasonable potential risks for the patients in the context of the disease
to be treated.
In July 2016, the first patient was treated under an Expanded Access Program (EAP) for
inoperable, progressive, somatostatin receptor positive, midgut carcinoid tumors.
Compassionate use programs in Europe include pulmonary NETs. In the US, there were many
centers with patients with NETs who did not meet the inclusion criteria for the original
EAP. In May 2017, Advanced Accelerator Applications inquired with the FDA if amending the
inclusion criteria of the original protocol to include all NETs would be permissible.
In June 2017, Advanced Accelerator Applications was able to submit a revision to the
original Expanded Access Program's protocol for 177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate to include
neuroendocrine tumors arising from sites other than midgut.
The locations listed below that are participating in the EAP may have received IRB
approval for either the original protocol or the new protocol or both. Please, inquire
with the Facility Contact as to which protocol is active at their site.
Drug: 177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate
The treatment regimen consists of 4 administrations of 7.4 GBq (200 mCi) at the date and
time of infusion. The recommended interval between two infusions is 8 weeks, which could
be extended up to 16 weeks in case of dose modifying toxicity.
Other Name: Lutathera
Inclusion Criteria:
- Presence of metastasized or locally advanced neuroendocrine tumor, inoperable
(curative intent) at enrollment time, and regardless of the origin of the tumor.
- Ki67 index ≤ 20%
- Patients progressive under SSA (any dose) at the time of enrollment
- Target lesions over-expressing somatostatin receptors according to an appropriate
imaging method (e.g. 111In-pentetreotide (Octreoscan) imaging or
68Ga-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate (or 68Ga-edotreotide) imaging)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Either serum creatinine >150 μmol/L (>1.7 mg/dL), or creatinine clearance <50 mL/min
calculated by the Cockroft Gault method, eventually confirmed by measured creatinine
clearance (or measured glomerular filtration rate (GFR) using plasma clearance
methods, not gamma camera-based) <50 mL/min (the measured creatinine clearance / GFR
is required only as confirmatory exam).
- Hb concentration <5.0 mmol/L (<8.0 g/dL); WBC <2x109/L (2000/mm3); platelets
<75x109/L (75x103/mm3).
- Total bilirubin >3 x ULN.
- Serum albumin <3.0 g/dL unless prothrombin time is within the normal range.
- Pregnancy or lactation.
- For female patients of childbearing potential (defined as < 2 years after last
menstruation and not surgically sterile) and male patients, who are not surgically
sterile or with female partners of childbearing potential: absence of effective,
non-hormonal means of contraception (intrauterine contraceptive device, barrier
method of contraception in conjunction with spermicidal gel).
- Any surgery, radioembolization, chemoembolization, chemotherapy and radiofrequency
ablation within 12 weeks prior to enrollment.
- Interferons, Everolimus (mTOR-inhibitors) or other systemic therapies within 4 weeks
prior to enrollment.
- Known brain metastases, unless these metastases have been treated and stabilized.
- Uncontrolled congestive heart failure (NYHA II, III, IV).
- Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus as defined by a fasting blood glucose >2 ULN.
- Any patient receiving treatment with short-acting Octreotide, which cannot be
interrupted for 24 h before and 24 h after the administration of
177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate, or any patient receiving treatment with Octreotide LAR,
which cannot be interrupted for at least 4 weeks before the administration of
177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate, unless the tumor uptake on target lesions is at least
as high as normal liver uptake.
- Patients with any other significant medical, psychiatric, or surgical condition,
currently uncontrolled by treatment, which may pose a risk to the patient safety
- Prior external beam radiation therapy to more than 25% of the bone marrow.
- Current spontaneous urinary incontinence making impossible the safe administration
of the radioactive IMP.
- Other known co-existing malignancies except non-melanoma skin cancer and carcinoma
in situ of the uterine cervix, unless definitively treated and with no evidence of
recurrence.
- Patients who have not provided a signed informed consent form to accept this
treatment.
Banner M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Gilbert, Arizona, United States
Mayo Clinic Hospital
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
City of Hope (City of Hope Medical Center, City of Hope National Medical Center)
Duarte, California, United States
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara Homestead
Santa Clara, California, United States
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California, United States
University of Colorado Hospital - Anschutz Cancer Pavilion
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers
Denver, Colorado, United States
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida, United States
Emory University Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Cancer Treatment Center of America - Southeastern Regional Medical Center
Newnan, Georgia, United States
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States
The University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics (UIHC) including the Carver College of Medicine
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Ochsner Medical Center
Kenner, Louisiana, United States
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Karmanos Cancer Institute
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Kansas City Research Institute
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Washington University School of Medicine Siteman Cancer Center
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
CHI Health West Omaha Imaging Center
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care
Bronx, New York, United States
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, New York, United States
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
Lenox Hill Hospital
New York, New York, United States
Stony Brook Cancer Center
Stony Brook, New York, United States
Duke University Hospital
Durham, North Carolina, United States
The Ohio State University James Cancer Center
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
University of Pittsburgh, Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Bon Secours Medical Group/ Saint Francis Hospital Cancer Center
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Texas Oncology - Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center
Dallas, Texas, United States
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, United States
University of Utah, Huntsman Cancer Institute
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Carilion Clinic
Roanoke, Virginia, United States
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, Washington, United States
University of Washington, Department of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine
Seattle, Washington, United States