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Liquid Biopsy Evaluation and Repository Development at Princess Margaret

— Observational Cancer Breast Cancer Lung Cancer Colon Cancer

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In plain language

An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.

What is being studied
This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
Who it may be relevant to
Registry conditions: Cancer, Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Colon Cancer. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
What needs checking
Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
Where it takes place
Canada
Next step
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Overview

The objective of this protocol is to develop an institution-wide liquid biopsy protocol that will establish a common process for collecting blood and corresponding archived tumor specimens for future research studies at the University Health Network's Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Circulating cell-free nucleic acids (cfNA), including cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and cell-free RNA (cfRNA), are non-invasive, real-time biomarkers that can provide diagnostic and prognostic information before cancer diagnosis, during cancer treatment, and at disease progression. Cancer research scientists and clinicians at the Princess Margaret are interested in incorporating the collection of peripheral blood samples ("liquid biopsies") into research protocols as a means of non-invasively assessing tumor progression and response to treatment at multiple time points during a patient's course of disease.

Primary outcome measures

  • Collection and annotation of biospecimens [Time frame: Through study completion, up to 5 years]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
  • Electronic Consenting [Time frame: Through study completion, up to 5 years]
  • Correlative Studies Questionnaire [Time frame: Through study completion, up to 5 years]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients with either histological confirmation of a solid tumor or hematological malignancy, OR patients identified as high-risk for cancer (based on identified aberration in cancer predisposition gene or on hormonal and/or family history without known aberration).
  • Patient must be ≥ 18 years old.
  • All patients must have signed and dated an informed consent form for this LIBERATE study.
  • If patients are being co-consented for a separate primary research study listed in Appendix I, they must fulfill the eligibility criteria for that separate primary research study. If there is a discrepancy in the eligibility criteria between protocols, the separate primary research study's criteria take precedence.

Exclusion criteria

None

Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.

Healthy volunteers: Yes

Study design

Observational model
Cohort

Study locations

Canada · 1 center
  • Princess Margaret Cancer Centre — Toronto

Publications

  • Zhao D, Lang N, Liu T, Shelton V, Rangel-Patino J, Gong IY, Hong M, Travas A, Murad V, Alrekhais I, Metser U, Prica A, Kukreti V, Bhella S, Vijenthira A, Crump M, Kuruvilla J, Arruda A, Minden MD, Lam B, Kridel R. Risk Assessment With Ultra-Low-Pass Whole-Genome Sequencing of Cell-Free DNA for Large B-Cell Lymphoma. JCO Precis Oncol. 2025 Jul;9:e2500200. doi: 10.1200/PO-25-00200. Epub 2025 Jul 9. PMID 40632977
  • Han K, Zou J, Zhao Z, Baskurt Z, Zheng Y, Barnes E, Croke J, Ferguson SE, Fyles A, Gien L, Gladwish A, Lecavalier-Barsoum M, Lheureux S, Lukovic J, Mackay H, Marchand EL, Metser U, Milosevic M, Taggar AS, Bratman SV, Leung E. Clinical Validation of Human Papilloma Virus Circulating Tumor DNA for Early Detection of Residual Disease After Chemoradiation in Cervical Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2024 Feb 1;4 PMID 37972346
  • Sanz-Garcia E, Genta S, Chen X, Ou Q, Araujo DV, Abdul Razak AR, Hansen AR, Spreafico A, Bao H, Wu X, Siu LL, Bedard PL. Tumor-Naive Circulating Tumor DNA as an Early Response Biomarker for Patients Treated With Immunotherapy in Early Phase Clinical Trials. JCO Precis Oncol. 2023 Apr;7:e2200509. doi: 10.1200/PO.22.00509. PMID 37027812
  • Spiliopoulou P, Janse van Rensburg HJ, Avery L, Kulasingam V, Razak A, Bedard P, Hansen A, Chruscinski A, Wang B, Kulikova M, Chen R, Speers V, Nguyen A, Lee J, Coburn B, Spreafico A, Siu LL. Longitudinal efficacy and toxicity of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in cancer patients treated with immunotherapy. Cell Death Dis. 2023 Jan 20;14(1):49. doi: 10.1038/s41419-022-05548-4. PMID 36670100
  • Watson GA, Sanz-Garcia E, Zhang WJ, Liu ZA, Yang SC, Wang B, Liu S, Kubli S, Berman H, Pfister T, Genta S, Spreafico A, Hansen AR, Bedard PL, Lheureux S, Abdul Razak A, Cescon D, Butler MO, Xu W, Mak TW, Siu LL, Chen E. Increase in serum choline levels predicts for improved progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with advanced cancers receiving pembrolizumab. J Immunother Cancer. 2022 Jun;10(6 PMID 35705312

Identifiers

NCT: NCT03702309 · LIBERATE

Primary sources (government registries)

View this study on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗