Using SonoCloud-9 with Carboplatin for Recurrent Glioblastoma
Official title: A Randomized, Open-label, Multicentric, Two-arm Pivotal Trial of SonoCloud-9 Combined With Carboplatin (CBDCA) vs Standard of Care Lomustine (CCNU) or Temozolomide (TMZ) in Patients Undergoing Planned Resection for First Recurrence Glioblastoma.
Run by CarThera · NCT05902169 · Data updated 2026-05-14
This study is no longer in our active list. It may have stopped recruiting or finished. The details below are as of 2026-05-14 and are kept for reference. Check ClinicalTrials.gov for its current status, or see similar studies below.
This study is testing if using an ultrasound device called SonoCloud-9 with the chemotherapy drug Carboplatin can help people with recurrent glioblastoma get better treatment results compared to standard chemotherapy options.
Quick facts
| Phase | Phase 3 |
|---|---|
| Study type | Interventional |
| Ages | 18 Years and up |
| Sex | All |
| Enrollment | 560 (estimated) |
| Sponsor | CarThera Industry-sponsored |
| Drugs / interventions | bevacizumab, chemotherapy, radiation |
| Locations | 48 sites (Phoenix, Arizona and 47 other locations) |
| Trial ID | NCT05902169 on ClinicalTrials.gov |
Is this trial a fit for you?
✓Likely a good fit
Ideal candidates are adults with histologically confirmed recurrent glioblastoma who have previously received standard treatment and show measurable disease progression.
✕Probably not a fit
Patients with glioblastoma who have not undergone prior treatment or those with significant comorbidities may not benefit from this study.
A plain-English reading of the study's rules. Only the study team can confirm whether you qualify.
What this trial studies
This clinical trial investigates the use of SonoCloud-9, an ultrasound device designed to temporarily open the blood-brain barrier, in combination with the chemotherapy drug Carboplatin for patients with recurrent glioblastoma. The goal is to enhance the delivery of Carboplatin to brain tumor tissues, which is often limited by the protective barrier. Participants must have a confirmed diagnosis of glioblastoma and have previously undergone standard treatments. The trial compares this innovative approach against standard chemotherapies like Lomustine and Temozolomide.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this approach could significantly improve treatment outcomes for patients with recurrent glioblastoma by allowing more effective drug delivery to the tumor.
How similar studies have gone: While the use of ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier is a novel approach, similar studies have shown promise in enhancing drug delivery to brain tumors.
Who can join: the full rules
Show full inclusion / exclusion criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Histologically proven glioblastoma (WHO criteria 2021), absence of IDH mutation demonstrated by negative IDH1 R132H staining on Immunohistochemistry.
2. Patient must have received prior first line therapy that must have contained both:
1. Prior surgery or biopsy and standard fractionated radiotherapy (1.8-2 Gy/fraction, \>56 Gy\<66 Gy) or hypofractionated radiotherapy (15 x 2.66 Gy or similar regimen)
2. One line of maintenance chemotherapy and/or immune- or biological therapy, (with or without Tumor-Treating Fields)
3. First, unequivocal disease progression with
1. measurable tumor (\>100 mm2 or 1 cm3, based on RANO criteria) documented (e.g., increase of 25% in tumor diameter) on MRI performed within 14 days of inclusion and,
2. interval of a minimum of 12 weeks since the completion of prior radiotherapy, unless there is a new lesion outside the radiation field or unequivocal evidence of viable tumor on histopathological sampling
4. Patient is candidate for craniotomy and at least 50% resection of enhancing region
5. Maximal enhancing tumor diameter prior to inclusion ≤ 5 cm on T1w. (In case of planned lobectomy, post operative peritumoral brain or residual size ≤5 cm)
6. WHO performance status ≤ 2 (equivalent to Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) ≥ 70)
7. Age ≥ 18 years
8. Participant must be recovered from acute toxic effects (\<grade 2) of all prior anticancer therapy. Interval since last therapy to presumed date of surgery of at least:
1. ≥ 4 weeks or 5 half-lives (whichever is shorter) for
* Cytotoxic
* Other small chemical entity (e.g., targeted therapy)
* For biologics (e.g., antibodies, except bevacizumab)
2. ≥ 6 weeks of prior bevacizumab
9. Adequate hematologic, hepatic, and renal laboratory values within 14 days of inclusion i.e.:
1. Hemoglobin ≥ 10 g/dL, platelets ≥ 100,000/mm3, neutrophils ≥ 1500/mm3.
2. Liver function test with ≤ grade 1 alterations, except if due to antiepileptic drug therapy or isolated increased bilirubin due to Gilbert syndrome
3. Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of at least 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 using Cockcroft Gault formula
10. Patient able to understand clinical trial information and willing to provide signed and informed consent
11. Patient of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test within 14 days of inclusion and must agree to use a medically-acceptable method of birth control during the treatment period and, if randomized in the experimental arm, for at least 1 month after the last cycle of carboplatin
12. A male patient must agree to use condoms during the treatment period and, if randomized in the experimental arm, for at least 3 months after the last cycle of carboplatin; the patient must also refrain from donating sperm during this period.
13. Patient must be a beneficiary of a health plan that covers routine patient care costs. Patient must be a beneficiary of or affiliated with a social security scheme (according to country-specific requirements)
Non-Inclusion Criteria:
1. Multifocal enhancing tumor on T1w (unless all localized in a 5 cm diameter area)
2. Posterior fossa tumor
3. Known BRAF/ NTKR mutated patients
4. Patient at risk of surgery site infection (e.g., 2 or more previous craniotomies/neurosurgery within the last 3 months, poor skin condition, and/or previously infected surgical field, or any other condition that is of increased infectious risk in the opinion of the neurosurgeon)
5. Patient treated at high, stable -or average- dose of corticosteroids (≥ 6 mg/day dexamethasone or equivalent) in the 7 days prior to inclusion. Patients on dexamethasone for reasons other than mass effect may still be enrolled.
6. Contra-indication to carboplatin, CCNU or TMZ
7. Known history of hypersensitivity reactions to perflutren lipid microsphere components or to any of the inactive ingredients in ultrasound resonator
8. Patient has received bevacizumab for other reasons (such as tumor progression) than treating edema
9. Peripheral neuropathy or neuropathy ≥ grade 2
10. Uncontrolled epilepsy or evidence of intracranial pressure
11. Patient with known intracranial aneurism or having presented intra-tumor significant spontaneous hemorrhage
12. Patient with unremovable coils, clips, shunts, intravascular stents, and/or wafer, or reservoirs
13. Patient with medical need to be on continued anti-platelet aggregation therapy and/or anticoagulation. Patients for whom anticoagulation/platelet aggregation can be temporarily interrupted may be eligible after discussion and prior authorization by the sponsor.
14. Patient receiving enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drugs (namely phenytoin, carbamazepine and derivatives, phenobarbital), unless switched on another antiepileptic regimen
15. History of other malignancy within 3 years prior to study start with the exception of adequately treated basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, non-melanomatous skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the uterine cervix
16. Patient with known or suspected active or chronic infections
17. Patient with known significant cardiac disease, known to have right-to-left shunts, severe pulmonary hypertension (pulmonary artery pressure \> 90 mm Hg), uncontrolled systemic hypertension, or acute respiratory distress syndrome
18. Known sensitivity/allergy to gadolinium, or other intravascular contrast agents
19. Patient with impaired thermo-regulation or temperature sensation
20. Pregnant, or breastfeeding patient
21. Any other serious patient medical or psychological condition that may interfere with adequate and safe delivery of treatment and care (e.g., positive human immunodeficiency virus \[HIV\] status, potential blood-borne infections,…), circumstance (e.g., sinus opening during surgery), psychological, morphological characteristics (e.g., skin characteristics, bone thickness), or any pre-existing comorbidities that in the investigator's opinion may prevent the implantation of the device, may impair the ability of the patient to receive treatment with SonoCloud-9 or may be confounding for evaluation of the clinical trial endpoints
22. Patients under guardianship, curatorship, under legal protection or deprived of liberty by an administrative or judicial decision
Exclusion Criterion:
Occurrence of any major medical illnesses or impairments that in the Investigator's opinion may hampered the ability of the patient to receive treatment with SonoCloud-9 or may be confounding for evaluation of the clinical endpoints.
Where it's running
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Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel
Brussels, Belgium Recruiting -
CHU de Liège
Liège, Belgium Recruiting -
Hôpital de La Timone
Marseille, France Recruiting -
Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière
Paris, France Recruiting -
Mayo Clinic Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona, United States Active not recruiting -
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States Active not recruiting
Show 42 more locations
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UCHealth
Aurora, Colorado, United States Active not recruiting -
Mayo Clinic of Jacksonville Florida
Jacksonville, Florida, United States Active not recruiting -
Miami Cancer Institute
Miami, Florida, United States Active not recruiting -
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida, United States Active not recruiting -
Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States Active not recruiting -
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States Active not recruiting -
Indiana University Health
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States Active not recruiting -
John Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, United States Active not recruiting -
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Rochester, Minnesota, United States Active not recruiting -
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York, United States Active not recruiting -
NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New York, New York, United States Active not recruiting -
Lennox Hill Hospital
New York, New York, United States Active not recruiting -
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States Active not recruiting -
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States Active not recruiting -
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, United States Active not recruiting -
University of Texas Houston Health Science Center
Houston, Texas, United States Active not recruiting -
University of Utah, Hunstman Cancer Institute
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Active not recruiting -
Medizinische Universitaet Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria Active not recruiting -
Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven
Leuven, Belgium Active not recruiting -
Rigshospitalet
Copenhagen, Denmark Active not recruiting -
Odense University Hospital
Odense, Denmark Active not recruiting -
Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer
Bron, France Active not recruiting -
Hôpital Foch
Suresnes, France Active not recruiting -
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany Active not recruiting -
Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH
Chemnitz, Germany Active not recruiting -
Neurochirurgie uniklinik Köln
Cologne, Germany Active not recruiting -
Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden
Dresden, Germany Active not recruiting -
Universitätsklinikum Essen Klinik für Neurologie
Essen, Germany Active not recruiting -
Ospedale Bellaria
Bologna, Italy Active not recruiting -
Ospedale Civile di Livorno
Livorno, Italy Active not recruiting -
Istituto Oncologico Veneto
Padua, Italy Active not recruiting -
Irccs Istituto Clinico Humanitas
Rozzano, Italy Active not recruiting -
Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino
Torino, Italy Active not recruiting -
Erasmus Medisch Centrum (Erasmus MC)
Rotterdam, Netherlands Active not recruiting -
Haaglanden Medisch Centrum
The Hague, Netherlands Active not recruiting -
Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO)
Barcelona, Spain Active not recruiting -
Hospital Clinic de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain Active not recruiting -
Hospital Universitario HM Sanchinarro
Madrid, Spain Active not recruiting -
Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre
Madrid, Spain Active not recruiting -
Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío
Seville, Spain Active not recruiting -
Inselspital Bern
Bern, Switzerland Active not recruiting -
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV)
Lausanne, Switzerland Active not recruiting
Study contacts
- Study coordinator: Carole Desseaux
- Email: contact@carthera.eu
- Phone: +33 472 626 268
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How to take part
- Review the eligibility criteria above with your treating physician.
- Check the official listing on ClinicalTrials.gov for the latest contact details and recruitment status.
- Contact the study coordinator or principal investigator to ask for pre-screening. Pre-screening is free and never obligates you to enroll.