Researchers are looking for better ways of diagnosing and treating pancreatic cancer. It is believed that looking for low levels of oxygen (hypoxia) in tumours may give a better understanding of how certain tumours grow or respond to certain treatments. This study will look at hypoxia in pancreatic tumours while participants are receiving treatment with the combination of gemcitabine and TH-302/placebo in the EMR 200592-001 clinical research study. This study will use positron emission tomography (PET) scans to look at hypoxia in tumours. PET is an imaging test that can be used to measure hypoxia in tumours. For this study, a radioactive tracer called Fluoroazomycin Arabinoside (FAZA) will be used to "label" areas of hypoxia in tumours. Determining the levels of hypoxia in tumour tissue using FAZA-PET scans and comparing these levels with the patient's response to treatment with gemcitabine and TH-302/placebo for pancreatic cancer may help the researchers to determine the relationship between hypoxia and response to this treatment. The main purpose of this study is to see how useful looking at hypoxia in tumours are when they are done at different centres.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Expected number of similar quality scans produced compared to actual number of similar quality scans produced using the same method is less than 15%.
Time frame: 2 years
Number of enrolled patients that complete all required scans compared to total number of patients enrolled in the study is at least 70%.
Time frame: 2 years
Range of tumor hypoxia in patients with pancreatic cancer that had not received prior treatment.
Time frame: 2 years
Compare the changes in tumor hypoxia before chemotherapy treatments and after chemotherapy treatments.
Time frame: 2 years
Compare the changes in tumor hypoxia with response to chemotherapy treatments.
Time frame: 2 years
Evaluate how FAZA is taken in by different tumor types within individual patients.
Time frame: 2 years
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