NCT02838836Recruiting
Tumor Cell and DNA Detection in the Blood, Urine and Bone Marrow of Patients With Solid Cancers
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 1 May 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Patients with resectable solid primary cancers and even limited number of metastases are potentially curable. However, most patients develop recurrences despite surgery. Circulating and disseminated tumor cell (CTC/DTC) and circulating cell-free (cf) DNA isolation from the blood, urine and bone marrow will increase understanding of cancer spread and advance knowledge to develop individualized therapies.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 620 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 9 Jul 2016
- Start date
- Jul 2016
- Primary completion date
- Dec 2027
- Lead sponsor
- University of Missouri-Columbia
- Diseases
- Lung cancer, Pancreatic cancer, Colorectal cancer, Liver and biliary tract cancer, Gastric and esophageal cancer
- NCT number
- NCT02838836
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Planned participants: 620
- From Jul 2016 to the primary completion date, Dec 2027
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Subjects with the concurrent diagnosis of an active secondary (synchronous) malignancy besides basal cell carcinoma of the skin will be excluded, if there is evidence of disease burden or if the patient is currently being treated with chemotherapy.
- In subjects who require intraoperative transfusions of \>4 units of red packed blood cells (RPBCs), no further blood will be drawn for CTC/DTC/cfDNA analysis during surgery or on postoperative day 1.
Other illness
- In patients with coagulation disorders that could lead to significant bleeding (such as hemophilia, significant thrombocytopenia) requiring prophylactic administration of coagulative products, no bone marrow aspiration will be performed.
Lab values
- Subjects with a hemoglobin of \<8g/dl in the morning of the procedure will be excluded.
Other
- Pregnant women.
Who the study is looking for
- Subjects older than 18 years.
- Subjects of all genders and ethnicities.
- Subjects with the diagnosis of a solid cancer (n=100) of all stages will be included (lung, esophageal, stomach, bile duct/pancreas, colorectal, melanoma, sarcoma).
- Ten patients with no present suspicion and no previous history of any cancer (except basal cell cancer of the skin) that undergo surgeries for other benign indications will serve as controls (n=20).
- In patients undergoing surgery for cancer the histopathology should preferably be pathologically proven by a previous or novel biopsy. Yet, patients with a high cancer suspicion by radiology and clinical picture that undergo cancer surgery will not be excluded. No additional biopsies, testing or interventions will be performed for the purpose of this study if the medical treatment will not require it.
- Subjects must be capable of giving informed consent.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, University of Missouri Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Columbia | United States | Recruiting |
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