NCT05520099Active, not recruiting
Observational Basket Trial to Collect Tissue to Develop and Train a Live Tumor Diagnostic Platform (ELEPHAS-02)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 29 Jun 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The primary objective of this study is to develop and train the Elephas live tumor diagnostic platform and determine the ex-vivo accuracy of the Elephas Score using in-vivo RECIST 1.1 as the reference method
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 416 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 26 Aug 2022
- Start date
- 26 Jun 2023
- Primary completion date
- Jan 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Elephas
- Diseases
- Head and neck cancer, Kidney cancer, Bladder cancer, Melanoma, Endometrial cancer, Lung cancer, Colorectal cancer, Liver and biliary tract cancer
- NCT number
- NCT05520099
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Planned participants: 416
- From 26 Jun 2023 to the primary completion date, Jan 2027
- 12 sites 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
- Immunocompromised subjects, and subjects known to be HIV positive and currently receiving antiretroviral therapy
Other illness
- Subjects with a known auto-immune disease that would render them ineligible for immune-oncology treatment
Other
- Subjects who are pregnant
- Subjects who are enrolled or plan to be enrolled in a blinded oncology treatment trial
Who the study is looking for
- Written informed consent and HIPAA authorization for release of personal health information prior to registration. NOTE: HIPAA authorization may be included in the informed consent or obtained separately.
- Age ≥ 18 years at the time of consent.
- Subjects must meet one of the following criteria:
- Subjects suspected or diagnosed with recurrent, locally advanced or metastatic cancer:
- Bladder: Urothelial Carcinoma (UC)
- Kidney: Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma (ccRCC)
- Subjects suspected or diagnosed with recurrent or metastatic cancer:
- Colon and Rectum: Microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H)/deficient mismatch repair (dMMR) Colorectal Cancer (CRC)
- Head and Neck: Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC), excluding nasopharyngeal and salivary gland cancers
- Liver: Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- Lung: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
- Skin: Cutaneous Melanoma, excluding Uveal Melanoma
- Uterus: endometrial cancer
- Subjects suspected or diagnosed with one of the following cancer types eligible for pure ICI neoadjuvant therapy:
- o Skin: Cutaneous Melanoma, Stage III
- Subjects suspected or diagnosed with:
- Any solid tumor type that is eligible for pure ICI therapy in the neoadjuvant or advanced/metastatic setting
- Any metastatic solid tumor with high TMB, MSI-High or dMMR and are being considered for treatment with ICI therapy.
- Any recurrent or metastatic patient with a solid tumor that the clinician plans to treat with ICI therapy.
- Subjects must be clinically able, at investigator discretion, to undergo a biopsy procedure
- Subjects who are newly diagnosed or have suspected cancer must be treatment-naïve at the time of biopsy. All other subjects should have the biopsy performed before starting their next line of treatment.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (12)
Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Buffalo | United States | Unknown status |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chapel Hill | United States | Unknown status |
| John Theurer Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hackensack | United States | Unknown status |
| Meritus Center for Clinical Research Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hagerstown | United States | Unknown status |
| CARTI Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Little Rock | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Louisville - James Graham Brown Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Louisville | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Wisconsin Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madison | United States | Unknown status |
| AdventHealth Orlando Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Orlando | United States | Unknown status |
| Memorial Health System Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pembroke Pines | United States | Unknown status |
| Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Salinas | United States | Unknown status |
| Cleveland Clinic Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Stuart | United States | Unknown status |
| University of South Florida (Tampa General Hospital) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tampa | United States | Unknown status |
Related publications
- A live tumor fragment platform to assess immunotherapy response in core needle biopsies while addressing challenges of tumor heterogeneity.J Transl Med · 2026 · PMID 41484629
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