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NCT04787744Active, not recruitingPhase 2/3

Veterans Affairs Seamless Phase II/III Randomized Trial of STAndard Systemic theRapy With or Without PET-directed Local Therapy for Oligometastatic pRosTate Cancer

Veterans Affairs Seamless Phase II/III Randomized Trial of STAndard Systemic theRapy With or Without PET-directed Local Therapy for OligoRecurrenT Prostate Cancer (VA STARPORT)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 5 Nov 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This is a prospective, open-label, multi-center seamless phase II to phase III randomized clinical trial designed to compare SST with or without PET-directed local therapy in improving the castration-resistant prostate cancer-free survival (CRPC-free survival) for Veterans with oligometastatic prostate cancer. Oligometastasis will be defined as 1-10 sites of metastatic disease based on the clinical determination of the LSI which incorporates all imaging, clinical, and pathologic data available.

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 2/3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
378 (actual)
First submitted
25 Feb 2021
Start date
1 Jul 2021
Primary completion date
2 Oct 2026
Lead sponsor
VA Office of Research and Development
NCT number
NCT04787744

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 2/3
  • Participants enrolled: 378
  • From 1 Jul 2021 to the primary completion date, 2 Oct 2026
  • 20 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

  • Presence of a symptomatic metastasis that requires palliative radiotherapy
  • Prior nodal, bone, or visceral metastasis after curative-intent therapy other than those identified on the enrollment imaging studies which make the patient ineligible for PET-directed local therapy (per investigator discretion)
  • Prior radiation therapy to any sites requiring PET-directed local therapy or salvage local therapy that will lead to prohibitively high risk of toxicity from subsequent local therapy, as determined by the treating radiation oncologist (if radiation is intended as the study local therapy) or surgeon/urologist (if surgery is intended as the study local therapy)
  • Any other previous or current condition, which, in the judgement of the LSI, is likely to interfere with any STARPORT treatments or assessments

Other illness

  • Prior malignancy, except the following:
    • Adequately treated non-melanomatous skin cancer
    • Adequately treated Stage 0, I, or II cancer from which the patient is currently in complete remission; or
    • Any other cancer from which the patient has been disease free for three years
  • Any known brain metastases, presence of leptomeningeal disease, malignant spinal cord compression, or malignant cauda equina syndrome

Lab values

  • Any current or prior evidence of castration-resistant prostate cancer, defined as two consecutive rises in serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA), obtained at a minimum of 1-week interval, with the final PSA value \>/= 1 nanograms per milliliter, while having a total testosterone \< 50 nanograms per deciliter)

Who the study is looking for

  • Ability to provide Informed Consent for participation in the study ECOG Performance Status 2 at time of enrollment. Prostate cancer, confirmed histologically or cytologically. If original documentation of histology and cytology are not available, documentation of prostate cancer satisfies these criteria. If recurrent, prior curative-intent local therapy to all sites of prostate cancer with either upfront radiotherapy or prostatectomy with or without post-operative radiotherapy
  • If recurrent, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) suspicious for biochemical recurrence after local therapy, with lab value(s) taken prior to start of standard systemic therapy (SST), if current standard systemic therapy has already started, or within 90 days prior to enrollment if not already on standard systemic therapy, and meeting one of the three below categories:
  • Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) 0.2 nanograms per milliliter (ng/ml) x 2 after prostatectomy +/- post-operative radiotherapy; Elevation of prostate-specific antigen 2 nanograms per deciliter (ng/dl) above the nadir after definitive radiotherapy; Or Two consecutively elevated PSAs with evidence of metastasis on the imaging studies
  • Serum testosterone obtained prior to randomization based on one of the criteria below:
  • For patients who have a history of a prior episode of therapy with standard systemic therapy agents for prostate cancer, a total testosterone 100 nanograms per deciliter (ng/dl) after completion of the prior episode of standard systemic therapy and before the start of current standard systemic therapy or within 30 days of starting current standard systemic therapy if the patient has already started standard systemic therapy for recurrence.
  • For patients who have no prior history of an episode of therapy with standard systemic therapy agents and have already started standard systemic therapy for recurrence, this pre-standard systemic therapy testosterone is not required.
  • Computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) abdomen/pelvis performed prior to start of standard systemic therapy (if current standard systemic therapy has already started) or within 90 days prior to enrollment if not already on standard systemic therapy. The results from the CT component of the PET/CT can be used to fulfill this criterion. This is optional for patients who have a PSMA PET/CTstandard systemic therapy Yechnetium (Tc99m-MDP) or sodium fluoride (NaF) bone scan (sodium fluoride preferred) performed prior to start of standard systemic therapy (if current standard systemic therapy has already started), or within 90 days prior to enrollment if not already on standard systemic therapy. This is optional for patients who have a PSMA PET/CT. Prostate PET/CT (currently PSMA, Fluciclovine, choline) performed prior to start of standard systemic therapy (if current standard systemic therapy has already started), or within 90 days prior to enrollment if not already on standard systemic therapy.
  • 1-10 lesions suspicious for nodal recurrence or metastasis from prostate cancer as determined by the investigator based on the above imaging studies
  • Has already undergone NPOP sequencing or a plan is in place for NPOP sequencing for prostate cancer
    • For participants on standard systemic therapy at the time of enrollment only:
  • Has been on standard systemic therapy for 180 days. For participants with local recurrence after curative-intent local therapy on imaging:
  • Patients with local recurrence in the prostate, SV, or prostate bed are eligible as long as there is at least 1 nodal or distant metastatic recurrence
  • Biopsy must confirm local recurrence for patients who have had prior curative-intent radiation to the prostate, SV, or prostate bed
  • Candidate for salvage local therapy (refer to Section 10.4) as determined by a urologist or radiation oncologist (depending on the respective modality to be used to treat the local recurrence)
    • For participants with de novo prostate cancer:
    • -Candidate for prostate-directed radiation

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

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (20)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI
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Ann ArborUnited StatesUnknown status
Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD
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BaltimoreUnited StatesUnknown status
Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, Pay Pines, FL
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Bay PinesUnited StatesUnknown status
VA Boston Healthcare System Jamaica Plain Campus, Jamaica Plain, MA
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BostonUnited StatesUnknown status
Louis Stokes VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
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ClevelandUnited StatesUnknown status
Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC
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DurhamUnited StatesUnknown status
East Orange Campus of the VA New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, NJ
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East OrangeUnited StatesUnknown status
Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL
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HinesUnited StatesUnknown status
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX
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HoustonUnited StatesUnknown status
Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN
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IndianapolisUnited StatesUnknown status
Kansas City VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO
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Kansas CityUnited StatesUnknown status
VA Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, CA
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Long BeachUnited StatesUnknown status
William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI
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MadisonUnited StatesUnknown status
Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
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MilwaukeeUnited StatesUnknown status
Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN
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MinneapolisUnited StatesUnknown status
VA NY Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY
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New YorkUnited StatesUnknown status
Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
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PhiladelphiaUnited StatesUnknown status
Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, VA
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RichmondUnited StatesUnknown status
Washington DC VA Medical Center, Washington, DC
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Washington D.C.United StatesUnknown status
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA
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West Los AngelesUnited StatesUnknown status

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