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Prostate Cancer Treatment Using Androgen Deprivation Therapy and Focal Prostate Ablation

  • PhasePhase 2
  • StatusRecruiting
  • Planned enrollment57 people
  • Recruiting US sites1
  • SponsorUniversity of Chicago
  • RegistryNCT05790213

Recruitment re-checked on ClinicalTrials.gov Oct 30, 2026. Public record; not medical advice.

Prostate Cancer Treatment Using Androgen Deprivation Therapy and Focal Prostate Ablation: a one-minute explainerNCT057902131 min

Eligibility

Who can join

The film gives the main points. The full list below is copied from the registry; the study team makes the final decision.

  • Age18 Years to no maximum
  • SexMale
  • Healthy volunteersNo

You may be able to join if

  • Subjects must have intermediate-risk PCa as defined by the below criteria:
  • a. Favorable intermediate-risk PCa: i. ≤ clinical stage T2c, GG2, and PSA ≤ 10 ng/mL, and <50% positive biopsy cores with PCa b. Unfavorable intermediate-risk PCa: i. ≤ clinical stageT2c, GG2, and PSA 10-20 ng/mL, or ≥50% positive biopsy cores with PCa, or ii. ≤ clinical stage T2c, GG3, and PSA < 20 ng/mL
  • No mpMRI evidence of extra-prostatic extension (EPE) or seminal vesicle invasion, and if seminal vesical invasion is suspected, it must be excluded by prostate biopsy.
  • Subjects must have chosen to get Focal Therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer.
  • Subjects must have confirmed non-metastatic PCa following SOC screening for patients with unfavorable intermediate-risk PCa, a combination of computed tomography imaging of the abdomen and pelvis (CTAP) and technetium-99-mDP nuclear medicine bone scan (BS) and/or prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography (PSMA/PET) scan prior to enrollment. The imaging studies should be obtained within 6-months of enrollment. Additional imaging is not required for men with favorable intermediate-risk PCa.
  • Subject must be male ≥ 18 years-old.
  • Subjects must have a life expectancy of at least 10-years per the opinion of the treating investigator.
  • Subjects must be designated as Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status ≤ 2 or Karnofsky Performance Status Scale Score ≥ 60%, see Appendix A).
  • Subjects must be fit to undergo general anesthesia and the FT surgical procedure, which includes adequate visualization of the prostate gland on transrectal ultrasound imaging, access to the urethra, perineum and rectum, as well as be tolerant of lithotomy positioning in the opinion of the treating investigator or the operating surgeon(s) if not the same as the treating investigator.
  • Subjects must have adequate organ and marrow function as defined below:
  • Hemoglobin ≥ 10 g/dL Leukocytes ≥ 3,000/mcL Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mcL Platelets ≥ 100,000/mcL Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) ≤ 2.5 × institutional ULN Creatinine < 1.5 institutional ULN OR Calculated or measured creatinine clearance > 50 mL/min/1.73 m2 eGFR >30 mL/min using the MDRD (modification of diet and renal disease) formula Serum albumin ≥3.0 g/dL Serum potassium ≥3.5 mmol/L
  • Subjects 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 are eligible for this trial.
  • Subjects who are sexually active with a woman of childbearing potential must agree to use a condom with spermicidal foam/gel/film/cream/suppository and his partner must also be practicing a highly effective method of contraception (i.e., established use of oral, injected or implanted hormonal methods of contraception; placement of an intrauterine device or intrauterine system) during treatment and for 3-months following the last ADT treatment.
  • Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.

You cannot join if

  • Subject has had prior or current PCa therapies, such as biologic, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, radiotherapy or surgery for PCa. Subjects may not have had undergone pelvic radiation, chemotherapy or immunotherapy treatment for a separate hematologic or visceral malignancy within 6-months of enrollment in the present study.
  • Subjects with locally advanced, nodal or metastatic prostate cancer.
  • Subjects who are unfit for pelvic mpMRI scanning (e.g., severe claustrophobia, permanent cardiac pacemaker, metallic implants that are likely to contribute to significant image artifacts, allergy or contraindication to gadolinium contrast agent.
  • History of allergy or intolerance to study drug components.
  • History of bilateral orchiectomy.
  • If the subject has an uncontrolled or major debilitating inter-current illness.
  • Subjects who are receiving any other investigational agents, or who have received other investigational agents in the past and who are no longer receiving these investigational agents may be eligible at the discretion of the principal investigator (PI).
  • Judgment by the treating investigator or PI that the subject is unsuitable to participate in the study and the subject is unlikely to comply with study procedures, restrictions and requirements.

The treatment

How it is intended to work

This is how the treatment is meant to work. Whether it helps, and how safe it is, is what this trial is testing.

Treatments listed in the registry

  • Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) (Drug): ADT will be given for 3 months. Participants will receive a standard ADT as chosen by their study doctor.
  • Focal prostate ablation (focal therapy) (Procedure): Focal prostate ablation (focal therapy) is a surgical procedure to destroy cancer cells by destroying a portion of the prostate instead of the whole prostate.

The study

Treatment groups

Na · Single Group · masking: None

Treatment Arm (Experimental)

Participants will receive Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) followed by Focal prostate ablation (focal therapy)

What it involves

Procedures

As the registry describes them. Requirements to join, such as a tissue sample, are in the eligibility list above even when on-study procedures are optional. Ask the study team which steps apply to you.

  • surgery: Part of the study plan

Goals

What the study measures

Main goals

  • Number of participants with clinically significant residual prostate cancer in ablated prostate tissue following study treatment (End of Treatment (approximately 4-5 months))
  • Number of participants with clinically significant residual prostate cancer in unablated prostate tissue following study treatment (End of Treatment (approximately 4-5 months))
  • Number and grade of complications [Safety] (6-months following treatment)

Other goals

  • Measuring change in genitourinary and sexual function and health-related quality of life (measured by HRQoL)
  • PSA response to the combination treatment
  • Proportion of men converting therapy or dying of prostate cancer during study
  • Post Treatment biopsy with no prostate cancer
  • Proportion of men with normal baseline serum

Planned enrollment: 57 (estimated).

Where

Recruiting US sites

  • UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chicago, Illinois

Site status as of Oct 30, 2026. Check the live record before contacting a site.

Background research

Papers linked by the registry

These papers are listed in the registry record. Unless a paper is marked as about this trial, it is background research on the treatment or disease, not results from this study.

Sources

Where this comes from

Registry record reviewed as fetched Oct 30, 2026, last updated by the sponsor Jun 15, 2026. Public record; not medical advice.

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