Sonocloud-9 in Association With Carboplatin Versus Standard-of-Care Chemotherapies (CCNU or TMZ) in Recurrent GBM
A Randomized, Open-label, Multicentric, Two-arm Pivotal Trial of SonoCloud-9 Combined With Carboplatin (CBDCA) vs Standard of Care Lomustine (CCNU) or Temozolomide (TMZ) in Patients Undergoing Planned Resection for First Recurrence Glioblastoma.
- Glioblastoma
- Recurrent Glioblastoma
- GBM
At a glance
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Sponsor
- CarThera
- Enrolment target
- 560
- Started
- 29 January 2024
- Main results due
- 28 January 2028
- Study sites
- 56
- Registry updated
- 29 September 2026
Can you take part?
- Aged 18 years and over.
- Open to any sex.
- You need the condition being studied — healthy volunteers are not accepted.
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Read the full eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Histologically proven glioblastoma (WHO criteria 2021), absence of IDH mutation demonstrated by negative IDH1 R132H staining on Immunohistochemistry.
2. Patient must have received prior first line therapy that must have contained both:
1. Prior surgery or biopsy and standard fractionated radiotherapy (1.8-2 Gy/fraction, ≥56 Gy\<66 Gy) or hypofractionated radiotherapy (15 x 2.66 Gy or similar regimen)
2. One line of maintenance chemotherapy and/or immune- or biological therapy, (with or without Tumor-Treating Fields)
3. First, unequivocal disease progression with
1. measurable tumor (\>100 mm2 or 1 cm3, based on RANO criteria) documented (e.g., increase of 25% in tumor diameter) on MRI and,
2. interval of a minimum of 12 weeks since the completion of prior radiotherapy, unless there is a new lesion outside the radiation field or unequivocal evidence of viable tumor on histopathological sampling
4. Patient is a candidate for craniotomy and at least 50% resection of enhancing region
5. Maximal enhancing tumor diameter prior to inclusion ≤ 5 (+7%) cm on T1w on MRI performed within 14 days prior to inclusion§. (In case of planned lobectomy, post operative peritumoral brain or residual size ≤5 cm)
6. WHO performance status ≤ 2 (equivalent to Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) ≥ 70)
7. Age ≥ 18 years
8. Participant must be recovered from acute toxic effects (≤ grade 2) of all prior anticancer therapy. Interval since last therapy to presumed date of surgery of at least:
1. ≥ 4 weeks or 5 half-lives (whichever is shorter) for
* Cytotoxic
* Other small chemical entity (e.g., targeted therapy)
* For biologics (e.g., antibodies, except bevacizumab)
2. ≥ 6 weeks of prior bevacizumab
9. Adequate hematologic, hepatic, and renal laboratory values within 14 days prior to inclusion§ i.e.:
1. Hemoglobin ≥ 10 g/dL, platelets ≥ 100,000/mm3, neutrophils ≥ 1500/mm3.
2. Liver function test with ≤ grade 1 alterations, except if due to antiepileptic drug therapy or isolated increased bilirubin due to Gilbert syndrome
3. Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of at least 60 mL/min/m2 using Appendix 12.4 formula
4. AST(SGOT)/ALT(SPGT) ≤ 3 X institutional ULN (upper Limit of Normal)
10. Patient able to understand clinical trial information and willing to provide signed and informed consent
11. Patient of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test within 14 days prior to inclusion§ and must agree to use a medically-acceptable method of birth control during the treatment period and, if randomized in the experimental arm, for at least 1 month after the last cycle of carboplatin
12. A male patient must agree to use condoms during the treatment period and, if randomized in the experimental arm, for at least 3 months after the last cycle of carboplatin; the patient must also refrain from donating sperm during this period.
13. Patient must be a beneficiary of a health plan that covers routine patient care costs. Patient must be a beneficiary of or affiliated with a social security scheme (according to country-specific requirements)
(§) These exam/lab tests could be (re)evaluated before randomization if the corresponding selection criteria could not be fully met at time of inclusion. If not met before randomization, the patient will be considered as screen failure.
Non-Inclusion Criteria:
1. Multifocal enhancing tumor on T1w (unless all localized in a 5 cm diameter area)
2. Posterior fossa tumor
3. Known BRAF/ NTKR mutated patients
4. Patient at risk of surgery site infection (e.g., 2 or more previous craniotomies/neurosurgery within the last 3 months, poor skin condition, known impaired wound healing and/or previously infected surgical field, uncontrolled diabetes or any other condition that is of increased infectious risk in the opinion of the neurosurgeon)
5. Patient treated at high, stable -or average- dose of corticosteroids (≥ 6 mg/day dexamethasone or equivalent) in the 7 days prior to inclusion. Patients on dexamethasone for reasons other than mass effect may still be enrolled.
6. Contra-indication to carboplatin, CCNU or TMZ
7. Known history of hypersensitivity reactions to perflutren lipid microsphere components or to any of the inactive ingredients in ultrasound resonator
8. Patient has received bevacizumab for other reasons (such as tumor progression) than treating edema
9. Peripheral neuropathy or neuropathy ≥ grade 2
10. Uncontrolled epilepsy or evidence of intracranial pressure
11. Patient with known intracranial aneurism or having presented intra-tumor significant spontaneous hemorrhage
12. Patient with unremovable coils, clips, shunts, intravascular stents, and/or wafer, or reservoirs
13. Patient with medical need to be on continued anti-platelet aggregation therapy and/or anticoagulation. Patients for whom anticoagulation/platelet aggregation can be temporarily interrupted may be eligible after discussion and prior authorization by the sponsor.
14. Patient receiving enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drugs (namely phenytoin, carbamazepine and derivatives, phenobarbital), unless switched on another antiepileptic regimen
15. History of other malignancy within 3 years prior to study start with the exception of adequately treated basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, non-melanomatous skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the uterine cervix
16. Patient with known or suspected active or chronic infections
17. Patient with known significant cardiac disease, known to have right-to-left shunts, severe pulmonary hypertension (pulmonary artery pressure \> 90 mm Hg), uncontrolled systemic hypertension, or acute respiratory distress syndrome
18. Known sensitivity/allergy to gadolinium, or other intravascular contrast agents
19. Patient with impaired thermo-regulation or temperature sensation
20. Pregnant, or breastfeeding patient
21. Any other serious patient medical or psychological condition that may interfere with adequate and safe delivery of treatment and care (e.g., positive human immunodeficiency virus \[HIV\] status, potential blood-borne infections, malnutrition…), circumstance (e.g., sinus opening during surgery), psychological, morphological characteristics (e.g., skin characteristics, bone thickness), or any pre-existing comorbidities that in the investigator's opinion may prevent the implantation of the device, may impair the ability of the patient to receive treatment with SonoCloud-9 or may be confounding for evaluation of the clinical trial endpoints
22. Patients under guardianship, curatorship, under legal protection or deprived of liberty by an administrative or judicial decision
Exclusion Criterion:
Occurrence of any major medical illnesses or impairments that in the Investigator's opinion may hampered the ability of the patient to receive treatment with SonoCloud-9 or may be confounding for evaluation of the clinical endpoints.What this study is about
In the sponsor’s own words, from the registry.
The brain is protected from any toxic or inflammatory molecule by the blood-brain barrier (BBB). This physical barrier is located at the level of the blood vessel walls. Because of these barrier properties, the blood vessels are also impermeable to the passage of therapeutic molecules from the blood to the brain. The development of effective treatments against glioblastoma is thus limited due to the BBB that prevents most drugs injected in the bloodstream from getting into brain tissue where the tumour is seated. The SonoCloud-9 (SC9) is an investigational device using ultrasound technology and specially developed to open the BBB in the area of and surrounding the tumour. The transient opening of the BBB allows more drugs to reach the brain tumour tissue. Carboplatin is a chemotherapy that is approved to treat different cancer types alone or in combination with other drugs, and has been used in the treatment of glioblastoma. Despite its proven efficacy in the laboratory on glioblastoma cells, carboplatin does not readily cross the BBB in humans. A clinical trial has shown that in combination with the SonoCloud-9, more carboplatin can reach the brain tumour tissue. The objective of the proposed trial is to show that the association - carboplatin with the SonoCloud-9 - will increase efficacy of the drug in patients with recurrent glioblastoma.
Study sites(56)
Mayo Clinic Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Recruiting
Kaiser Permanente
Los Angeles, California, United States
Not yet recruiting
UCLA
Los Angeles, California, United States
Not yet recruiting
Sutter Health - California Pacific Medical Center
San Francisco, California, United States
Recruiting
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
Recruiting
UCHealth
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Recruiting
Mayo Clinic of Jacksonville Florida
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Recruiting
Miami Cancer Institute
Miami, Florida, United States
Recruiting
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida, United States
Recruiting
Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Recruiting
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Recruiting
Indiana University Health
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Recruiting
John Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Recruiting
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Active, not recruiting
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York, United States
Recruiting
NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New York, New York, United States
Recruiting
Lennox Hill Hospital
New York, New York, United States
Recruiting
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Recruiting
Neurological Institute Brain Tumor Centre Taussig Cancer Cente
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Recruiting
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
Recruiting
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, United States
Recruiting
University of Texas Houston Health Science Center
Houston, Texas, United States
Active, not recruiting
University of Utah, Hunstman Cancer Institute
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Recruiting
Medizinische Universitaet Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria
Recruiting
Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel
Brussels, Belgium
Recruiting
Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Recruiting
CHU de Liège
Liège, Belgium
Recruiting
Rigshospitalet
Copenhagen, Denmark
Recruiting
Odense University Hospital
Odense, Denmark
Recruiting
Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer
Bron, France
Recruiting
Hôpital de La Timone
Marseille, France
Recruiting
Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière
Paris, France
Recruiting
Hôpital Foch
Suresnes, France
Recruiting
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Recruiting
Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH
Chemnitz, Germany
Recruiting
Neurochirurgie uniklinik Köln
Cologne, Germany
Recruiting
Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden
Dresden, Germany
Recruiting
Universitätsklinikum Essen Klinik für Neurologie
Essen, Germany
Recruiting
University Hospital Munster
Münster, Germany
Recruiting
Ospedale Bellaria
Bologna, Italy
Recruiting
Ospedale Civile di Livorno
Livorno, Italy
Recruiting
Istituto Oncologico Veneto
Padua, Italy
Recruiting
IFO - Istituto Nazionale Tumori Regina Elena
Roma, Italy
Recruiting
Irccs Istituto Clinico Humanitas
Rozzano, Italy
Recruiting
Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino
Torino, Italy
Recruiting
Erasmus Medisch Centrum (Erasmus MC)
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Recruiting
Haaglanden Medisch Centrum
The Hague, Netherlands
Recruiting
Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO)
Barcelona, Spain
Recruiting
Hospital Clinic de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Recruiting
Hospital Universitario HM Sanchinarro
Madrid, Spain
Recruiting
Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre
Madrid, Spain
Recruiting
Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío
Seville, Spain
Recruiting
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Gothenburg, Sweden
Recruiting
Akademiska sjukhuset
Uppsala, Sweden
Recruiting
Inselspital Bern
Bern, Switzerland
Recruiting
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV)
Lausanne, Switzerland
Recruiting
Showing 56 of 56 sites. 52 of the 56 sites on this study are recruiting right now — a site can stop enrolling while the study as a whole is still open.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT05902169. Trialion does not run this study, is not paid to refer anyone to it, and cannot enrol you. Eligibility is always decided by the research team at the site.
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