Recruiting

Adaptive Radiation Therapy

Sponsor:

Fox Chase Cancer Center

Code:

NCT06984562

Conditions

Locally Advanced Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDA)

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Adaptive Radiation Therapy

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART) is safe and effective in treating patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer.

The main questions the study aims to answer are:

  • Can ART improve how well radiation therapy targets the most aggressive cancer cells, while protecting the healthy tissue around the tumor?
  • Can ART help reduce the side effects that participants may experience during treatment?

Participants will:

  • Undergo CT scans to plan the exact location of the radiation treatment. During this process, 1-3 small markers may be placed in or near the tumor to help with the planning.
  • Have a tumor biopsy, which involves taking a small sample of tissue from the cancer.
  • Receive 5 radiation treatments every other day over a 2-week period.
  • Provide blood samples before, during, and after your radiation treatment.

Conditions

Locally Advanced Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDA)

Study ID

NCT06984562

Start date

Aug 20, 2025

Status verified date

Sep, 2025

Completion date

Aug 1, 2029

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug 1, 2028

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients must have histologically or cytologically-confirmed PDA.
2. Patients must have locally advanced unresectable PDA.

• This includes the following- per NCCN criteria\*: 2.1 Unreconstructible involvement with the superior mesenteric vein or portal vein due to tumor or bland thrombus OR 2.2 Solid tumor contact with greater than 180 degrees of the superior mesenteric artery or celiac artery OR 2.3. Solid tumor contact with the aorta OR 2.4. Patients with non-metastatic disease that is inoperable by virtue of the operation posing excessive risk to the patient

\*All patients must have been reviewed in the multidisciplinary conference and determined to have unresectable disease by a pancreatic surgeon and to have received or be ineligible for induction chemotherapy based on medical oncology assessment. Documentation of this review in EPIC meeting minutes will satisfy this requirement.
3. Patients enrolled onto the dose escalation arm may have started chemotherapy prior to initiation of radiation therapy and the last dose of chemotherapy must occur at least 2 weeks before start of ART.
4. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, or ECOG, performance status 0-2.
5. Adequate bone marrow, hepatic, renal function:

  • ANC ≥ 1,500/µl and PLT ≥ 100,000/µl
  • Bilirubin less than 1.5 ULN
  • AST and ALT < 3X ULN
  • Serum Creatinine <1.5X ULN
6. Women of childbearing potential must not be pregnant (negative pregnancy test within 72 hours prior to registration). Postmenopausal woman must have been amenorrheal and non-lactating for at least 12 months to be considered of non-childbearing potential. Men and women of childbearing potential must be willing to exercise an effective form of birth control (abstinence/contraception) while on study and for at least 6 months after therapy is completed.
7. Age ≥ 18 years
8. Participants must sign a written informed consent and HIPAA consent prior to performance of study-specific procedures or assessments and must be willing to comply with treatment, tissue sample collections, and follow-up.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Radiologically or cytologically confirmed metastatic disease.
2. Patients who have had any prior radiation therapy for pancreatic cancer.
3. Patients who have had prior chemoradiation to an overlapping volume.
4. Patients with adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas.
5. Subjects who have had chemotherapy within 2 weeks prior to entering the study or those who have not recovered from adverse events due to agents administered more than 2 weeks earlier to < Grade 2. Patients who received previous immunotherapy or other antibody therapy, within 28 days (immune related toxicities must have resolved to <= Grade 2 prior to starting treatment). Study treatment may be started within these washout periods or with continuing toxicities if considered by the Sponsor-Investigator to be safe and within the best interest of the patient.
6. Concurrent non-study chemotherapy or biologic therapy.
7. A history of ataxia telangiectasia or other documented history of radiation hypersensitivity.

• Includes both bi- and mono-allelic likely pathogenic or pathogenic ATM mutations (VUS is acceptable).
8. Serious, active infections requiring treatment with IV antibiotics

Study Design

Enrollment

16 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Single-Arm

Adaptive Radiation Therapy

Interventions

Adaptive Radiation Therapy

Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART) creates a personalized radiation plan for each treatment session. This means the plan can change from day to day to more precisely target the tumor while protecting the surrounding healthy tissue.

By closely shaping the radiation to match the tumor's location, ART may reduce the amount of radiation reaching nearby normal tissues. This can allow for higher, more focused doses of radiation to the tumor itself, which may help improve treatment effectiveness while reducing side effects.

Primary outcome measure

  • The rate of acute and late grade ≥3 gastrointestinal toxicity occurring within 3 months of treatment possibly, probably or definitely related to radiation. [ Time Frame: From start of radiation to 3 months after the end of radiation treatment ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Locations

Fox Chase Cancer Center

Recruiting

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19111

Contacts

More Information

Sponsor

Fox Chase Cancer Center

Last update posted

Oct 29, 2025

Last verified

Sep, 2025

Keywords

  • Adaptive Radiation Therapy
  • Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
  • Locally advanced unresectable PDA

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-08. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Fox Chase Cancer Center on 2025-10-29.