Status:

COMPLETED

Pimo Study: Extracellular Vesicle-based Liquid Biopsy to Detect Hypoxia in Tumours

Lead Sponsor:

Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom

Conditions:

Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to test the potential of a relatively simple serum assay that aims to identify patient subpopulations whose curative radiotherapy outcome is likely to be compromised by ra...

Detailed Description

Aim: To analyse tiny cancer cell fragments called extracellular vesicles isolated from blood samples for their ability to identify patients with tumours that are relatively oxygen-starved and expected...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients i) Age ≥18 years ii) Biopsy-proven invasive carcinomas of head and neck, lung, bladder, uterine cervix or breast iii) Bulky (≥4 cm or ≥ 30 cc) primary/locally recurrent tumour or regional node masses iv) No clinical evidence of distant metastases unless oligometastases (ie distant relapse in only a limited number of regions for which local ablative therapy could be curative) v) Patient due for surgery, radiotherapy, systemic therapy or no anti-cancer treatment vi) Written informed consent
  • Healthy volunteers i) Age ≥18 years ii) Written informed consent

Exclusion

  • Patients i) Inadequate cognitive ability to undertake the appropriate informed consent procedure
  • Healthy volunteers i) Past history of cancer, apart from non-melanomatous skin cancer or in situ carcinoma uterine cervix

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

November 10 2017

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

September 12 2019

Estimated Enrollment :

21 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03262311

Start Date

November 10 2017

End Date

September 12 2019

Last Update

December 23 2019

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The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom, SM2 5PT