Using 18F-FAPI PET to Detect Metastatic Disease in Patients That Have Gastric or Esophageal Cancer.
Study Phase: Phase 3
Recruitment Status: Recruiting
Start Date: November 14, 2025
End Date: August 30, 2027
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male and female adults ≥ 18 years.
- Participants with confirmed gastric, esophageal or gastroesophageal malignancy undergoing staging evaluation for treatment planning.
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status ≤2.
- Provided signed, written informed consent prior to any study-related procedures.
- Participants are required to have a ceCT scan of chest, abdomen and pelvis as per standard clinical practice and practice guidelines either 21 days or less prior to entry or planned within 21 days of [¹⁸F]FAPI-74 administration.
- For women who are not postmenopausal (two years of amenorrhea) or surgically sterile (absence of ovaries and/or uterus): agreement to use medically accepted, highly effective methods of contraception (e.g., hormonal implants, combined oral contraceptives, vasectomized partner, during the trial intervention period.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unequivocal evidence of metastases at the time of enrollment that would preclude surgery as a treatment option.
- Known hypersensitivity to [¹⁸F]FAPI-74.
- Administration of another investigational diagnostic or therapeutic product within 30 days prior to [¹⁸F]FAPI-74 administration.
- Prior administration of a radiopharmaceutical within 10 half-lives of that product from the time of [¹⁸F]FAPI-74 administration.
- Previous cancer (except basal cell carcinoma of the skin or in situ carcinoma of the cervix/uterus (participants treated with curative intent and disease free for more than 5 years are permitted).
- Hepatic function: T. bili >1.5X ULN or alk phos, ALT, or AST >5X ULN
- Renal function: GFR < 30 mL/min
- Pregnant or currently breast feeding (a negative pregnancy test is required in women of childbearing potential).
- Inability to undergo the PET/CT scanning procedure.
- Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis)
- Sarcoidosis
- Treatment, including chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy or surgery for curative intent of Gastroesophageal cancers
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Conditions:
- Esophageal Neoplasms
- Stomach Neoplasms