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ExosomeDx in MRI-negative Men With High PSA
Sponsor: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Summary
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become the current standard of care in risk stratifying men with an elevated Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) to determine who needs to undergo prostate biopsy, which is invasive and carries a 3-5% risk of serious infection. Recent data shows the negative predictive value of MRI to be only 77%, indicating that some men may inappropriately forego biopsy based on a negative MRI. Urinary exosomes can be captured and analyzed by the ExosomeDx (ExoDx) Prostate test, a urine based, gene signature derived from PCA3 (prostate cancer antigen 3) and ERG (erythroblast transformation-specific related gene), and SPDEF (SAM pointed domain-containing ETS transcription factor); ExoDx carries a 90% negative predictive value. The use of ExoDx test among patients with negative MRIs has the potential to improve the risk stratification of patients with an elevated PSA in a way that the Urologist can more accurately determine which patients need to undergo prostate biopsy. In doing so, the Urologist can better risk-stratify which patients should undergo prostate biopsy and be exposed to the associated potential risks, and also be more confident about the safety of foregoing biopsy in those patients with negative MRI and negative ExoDx test.
Official title: Evaluation of Urinary Exosomes as a Risk Stratification Tool Among Men With Elevated PSAs and Negative Prostate MRIs
Key Details
Gender
MALE
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
425
Start Date
2025-08
Completion Date
2026-08
Last Updated
2025-05-11
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Urinary ExoDx test
A urine sample for ExoDx Study Kit will be collected onsite and shipped to Exosome Diagnostic's laboratory.
Transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy
Participants will be scheduled for transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy as per the standard diagnostic practice after urinary test.
Transperineal 12-core prostate biopsy
Participants will be scheduled for transperineal 12-core prostate biopsy as per the standard diagnostic practice after urinary test.
Locations (6)
Mount Sinai Beth Israel / Union Square
New York, New York, United States
Mount Sinai West
New York, New York, United States
Mount Sinai Morningside
New York, New York, United States
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, New York, United States
Mount Sinai Queens
New York, New York, United States
Mount Sinai Brooklyn
New York, New York, United States