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CCR2 PET Imaging Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
RecruitingPhase 2
Who can join
Ages 18 and older · All sexes
Full eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patient 18 years of age or older * Cohort 1: Newly diagnosed locally advanced T3-T4a, N0-3 and M0 squamous cell head and neck cancer scheduled to undergo standard of care surgery with or without neoadjuvant therapy OR Cohort 2: Suspected or biopsy proven recurrent/metastatic squamous cell head and neck cancer scheduled to undergo first-line anti-PD1 therapy. HPV status does not need to be known and both HPV+ and HPV- subjects are eligible to enroll * Lesion size of at least 1.0 cm in longest dimension by conventional imaging. * Able to give informed consent * Not currently pregnant or nursing: Female subjects must be surgically sterile (has had a documented bilateral oophorectomy and/or documented hysterectomy), post- menopausal (cessation of menses for more than 1 year), non-lactating, or of childbearing potential for whom a urine pregnancy test (with the test performed within the 24 hour period immediately prior to administration of Cu-DOTA-ECL1i is negative Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with other invasive malignancies, with the exception of non-melanoma skin cancer, who had (or have) any evidence of the other cancer present within the last 2 years * Unable to tolerate approximately 60 min (total time) of PET/CT imaging
About the study
This is a prospective study to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of Cu-64 DOTA-ECL1i PET/CT imaging to serve as a novel precision imaging tool for patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).
What is being tested
- 64Cu-DOTA-ECL1i (drug)
Sponsor: Washington University School of Medicine · Participants: 90 · Started: Oct 31, 2026
Contact the study team
- Farrokh Dehdashti, MD · Phone: 314-362-1474
Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT07659678
Locations in the U.S.
| Missouri | Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis |
Conditions
From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Nov 15, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.