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NCT03784755Active, not recruiting

Local Ablative Therapy For Hormone Sensitive Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer

A Randomized Phase III Trial of Local Ablative Therapy For Hormone Sensitive Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer [PLATON]

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 27 Mar 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of ablative therapy (radiation or surgery) to all sites of disease combined with standard treatments on prostate cancer, compared to the standard or usual treatments used to treat this disease.

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
409 (actual)
First submitted
19 Dec 2018
Start date
15 Nov 2019
Primary completion date
31 Dec 2032
Lead sponsor
Canadian Cancer Trials Group
NCT number
NCT03784755

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Participants enrolled: 409
  • From 15 Nov 2019 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2032
  • 18 sites in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Prior treatment with ADT in the neoadjuvant or adjuvant setting, unless treatment was discontinued ≥ 12 months prior to randomization AND total duration of treatment was ≤ 36 months (including expiry of last depot injection).
  • Previously diagnosed recurrent/metastatic disease which has been already treated with any systemic therapy or radiotherapy with palliative intent.
  • Patients who present with de novo stage IV disease with pelvic lymphadenopathy as their only site of metastases (N1 M0), where the primary prostate has never been treated with curative intent prostate surgery or radiotherapy in the past.

Other illness

  • Inability to treat all sites of disease with local ablative therapy

Lab values

  • Castration resistant prostate cancer, defined as rising PSA (per PCWG3) or radiographic progression in the setting of castrate levels of serum testosterone (\< 1.7 nmol/L).

Other

  • Patients with parenchymal brain metastases

Who the study is looking for

  • Histologic diagnosis/confirmation of prostate adenocarcinoma and no evidence of small cell cancer.
  • Stage IV at presentation or relapse after curative intent therapy, classification per AJCC 8th edition: M1 disease with ≤ 5 metastases
  • ≤ 3 metastases in any non-bone organ system
  • Zoladex must commence within 12 weeks prior to randomization or within 12 weeks after randomization.
  • Radiology (CT/MRI chest/abdomen/pelvis) within 42 days of randomization
  • Bone scan within 42 days of randomization
  • All tumours (Primary prostate and metastases) must be amenable to local ablative therapy (radiation and/or surgery).
  • Age ≥ 18
  • ECOG performance 0-2
  • Patient is able (i.e. sufficiently fluent) and willing to complete the quality of life and economics questionnaires in either English or French
  • Patient consent must be appropriately obtained in accordance with applicable local and regulatory requirements. Each patient must sign a consent form prior to enrollment in the trial to document their willingness to participate
  • Patients must be medically suitable for study treatments as assessed by the appropriate specialties: medical, radiation, and surgical
  • Patients with a prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history or treatment does not have the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the investigational regimen
  • Patients must be accessible for treatment and follow-up. Investigators must assure themselves the patients randomized on this trial will be available for complete documentation of the treatment, adverse events, and follow-up
  • In accordance with CCTG policy, ablative therapy to metastases is to begin within 6 weeks after patient randomization
  • Men of childbearing potential must have agreed to use a highly effective contraceptive method to prevent pregnancy while on study
  • Patient must consent to provision of, and Investigator must confirm location of and commit to obtain a representative formalin fixed paraffin block of tumour tissue in order that the specific correlative studies described in the protocol may be conducted. Where tissue exists but local centre regulations prohibit submission of blocks of tumour tissue, the approval of the CCTG must be sought prior to randomization of the first patient to allow cores (two 2 mm cores of tumour from the block) and slides (20 x 5 micron thick unstained slides) of representative tumour tissue to be substituted
  • Patient must consent to provision of samples of whole blood (for cfDNA) in order that the specific correlative studies described in the protocol may be conducted.

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: Male · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (18)

Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.

SiteCityCountrySite status
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre
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BarrieCanadaUnknown status
Health Sciences North
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Greater SudburyCanadaUnknown status
QEII Health Sciences Centre
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HalifaxCanadaUnknown status
Juravinski Cancer Centre at Hamilton Health Sciences
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HamiltonCanadaUnknown status
Kingston Health Sciences Centre
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KingstonCanadaUnknown status
Trillium Health Partners - Credit Valley Hospital
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MississaugaCanadaUnknown status
The Jewish General Hospital
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MontrealCanadaUnknown status
CIUSSS de l'Est-de-I'lle-de-Montreal
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MontrealCanadaUnknown status
CHUM - Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal
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MontrealCanadaUnknown status
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
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OttawaCanadaUnknown status
Hotel-Dieu de Quebec
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QuébecCanadaUnknown status
Allan Blair Cancer Centre
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ReginaCanadaUnknown status
Saskatoon Cancer Centre
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SaskatoonCanadaUnknown status
Algoma District Cancer Program
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Sault Ste. MarieCanadaUnknown status
University Health Network
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TorontoCanadaUnknown status
Odette Cancer Centre
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TorontoCanadaUnknown status
BCCA - Victoria
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VictoriaCanadaUnknown status
CancerCare Manitoba
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WinnipegCanadaUnknown status

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