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A Prospective Study of Liquid Biopsy for Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection

— Observational Pancreatic Cancer

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In plain language

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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: Pancreatic Cancer. Basic parameters: 40 years — 75 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
China
Next step
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Official title

A Proof of Concept Study of Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection by cfDNA Assay

Overview

This study is a multi-center, observational study aiming at developing a machine learning-based early detection model using prospectively collected liquid biopsy samples from clinically-annotated individuals.

Detailed description

Peripheral blood samples from participants with new diagnosis of pancreatic cancers will be collected to characterize the cancer-specific circulating signals by sequencing cell free DNA. A noninvasive test integrating machine learning algorithm will be trained and validated through a two-stage approach in recruited well-classified individuals, along with non-cancers without clinical diagnosis of cancer after routine medical screening. The performance of liquid biospy assays discovering cancer from non-cancer will be evaluated in participants with benign disease as well as average risk individuals.

Primary outcome measures

  • Performance of cfDNA methylation-based model for discriminating pancreatic cancer versus non-cancer [Time frame: 12 months]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
  • Performance of models using multi-omic data for discriminating pancreatic cancer versus non-cancer [Time frame: 12 months]
  • Performance of pre-defined model in clinical sub-groups of interest [Time frame: 12 months]

Eligibility criteria

Cancer Arm

Inclusion criteria

  • 40-75 years old
  • Clinically and/or pathologically diagnosed pancreatic cancer
  • No prior or undergoing any systemic or local antitumor therapy, including but not limited to surgical resection, radiochemotherapy, endocrinotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, interventional therapy, etc.
  • Able to provide a written informed consent and willing to comply with all part of the protocol procedures.

Exclusion criteria

  • Pregnancy or lactating women
  • Known prior or current diagnosis of other types of malignancies comorbidities
  • Severe acute infection (e.g. severe or critical COVID-19, sepsis, etc.) or febrile illness (body temperature of ≥ 38.0 °C) within 14 days prior to blood draw
  • Recipients of organ transplant or prior bone marrow transplant or stem cell transplant
  • Recipients of blood transfusion within 30 days prior to study blood draw
  • Recipients of therapy in past 14 days prior to blood draw, including oral or IV antibiotics, glucocorticoid, azacitidine, decitabine, procainamine, hydrazine, arsenic trioxide
  • Other conditions that the investigators considered are not suitable for the enrollment

Benign Disease Arm

Inclusion criteria

  • 40-75 years old
  • Clinically and/or pathologically diagnosed pancreatic non-malignant disease (pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia, pancreatic cyst and chronic pancreatitis)
  • No prior or undergoing any systemic or local antitumor therapy, including but not limited to surgical resection, radiochemotherapy, endocrinotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, interventional therapy, etc.
  • Able to provide a written informed consent and willing to comply with all part of the protocol procedures

Exclusion criteria

  • Pregnancy or lactating women
  • Known prior or current diagnosis of other types of malignancies comorbidities
  • Severe acute infection (e.g. severe or critical COVID-19, sepsis, etc.) or febrile illness (body temperature of ≥ 38.0 °C) within 14 days prior to blood draw
  • Recipients of organ transplant or prior bone marrow transplant or stem cell transplant
  • Recipients of blood transfusion within 30 days prior to study blood draw
  • Recipients of therapy in past 14 days prior to blood draw, including oral or IV antibiotics, glucocorticoid, azacitidine, decitabine, procainamine, hydrazine, arsenic trioxide
  • Other conditions that the investigators considered are not suitable for the enrollment

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

Healthy volunteers: No

Study design

Observational model
Case-control

Study locations

China · 3 centers
  • Department of Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Cente — Shanghai
  • Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic-Splenic Surgery, Shanghai General Hospital — Shanghai
  • Department of General Sugery, Huadong Hospital — Shanghai

Identifiers

NCT: NCT06166147 · Profound-PC

Primary sources (government registries)

View this study on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗