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Liquid Biopsy in Ewing Sarcoma and Osteosarcoma as a Prognostic And Response Diagnostic: LEOPARD

Liquid Biopsy in Ewing Sarcoma and Osteosarcoma as a Prognostic And Response Diagnostic: The LEOPARD Study

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 5 May 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This is a prospective multicenter biomarker study evaluating the prognostic impact of ctDNA detection at diagnosis in patients with Ewing sarcoma or osteosarcoma.

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
340 (estimated)
First submitted
28 Sept 2023
Start date
8 May 2018
Primary completion date
1 Jan 2027
Lead sponsor
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
NCT number
NCT06068075

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Planned participants: 340
  • From 8 May 2018 to the primary completion date, 1 Jan 2027
  • 15 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

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Patients who are enrolled with an initial diagnosis of Ewing sarcoma and subsequently found to have Ewing-like sarcoma will be replaced. Samples obtained prior to removal from study will be analyzed and reported descriptively. Patients with Ewing-like tumors may continue to provide samples and clinical data until they meet off-study criteria per protocol.
  • Patients without detectable tumor at the time of study enrollment (ie, complete tumor resection prior to study enrollment)
  • Patients already receiving tumor-directed therapy at the time of study enrollment except when a pre-treatment baseline sample has already been obtained under a local banking study in DFCI Pediatrics that would be eligible for analysis under this study.
  • Samples obtained prior to removal from study will be analyzed and reported descriptively. Patients with Ewing-like tumors may continue to provide samples and clinical data until they meet off-study criteria per protocol

Other illness

  • Patients with distant metastatic disease.
  • Patients with a second malignant neoplasm
  • Patients diagnosed with relapsed disease and/or having started therapy directed at disease relapse

Other

  • For Part A, subjects must not meet any of the following exclusion criteria.
  • Patients with known Ewing-like sarcoma (e.g., BCOR-CCNB3 or CIC-DUX4 translocated small round cell sarcomas) are not eligible.
  • Patients weighing \< 5 kg at time of diagnosis
  • Patients with osteosarcoma with a pelvic primary tumor site Pregnancy
  • For Part B, subjects must not meet any of the following exclusion criteria.
  • Patients with known Ewing-like sarcoma (e.g., BCOR-CCNB3 or CIC-DUX4 translocated small round cell sarcomas) are not eligible.
  • Patients weighing \< 5 kg at time of enrollment
  • Pregnancy
  • Resides outside of the United States
  • For Part B, providers at non-study centers will not be eligible to receive the provider survey.

Who the study is looking for

  • For Part A, subjects must meet all of the following eligibility criteria.
  • Age: ≥ 12 months of age at time of study enrollment to 50 years of age
  • Diagnosis: Patients with histologic diagnosis (by institutional pathologist) of newly diagnosed, localized or regionally disseminated Ewing sarcoma or peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) of bone or soft tissue or; Patients with histologic diagnosis (by institutional pathologist) of newly diagnosed, non-pelvic, localized or regionally disseminated high-grade osteosarcoma. NOTE: Staging will be assessed according to standard of care at the treating center.
  • Prior Therapy:
    • Patients should have only previously had a biopsy, and not had prior attempt at tumor resection.
    • Not yet started chemotherapy or radiation therapy OR patient has started chemotherapy or radiation therapy, but an appropriate pre-treatment baseline sample was collected and processed for ctDNA under a local banking study in DFCI Pediatrics and is available to use for this study.
  • Planned to receive chemotherapy as follows:
    • \-- VDC/IE as per COG protocols AEWS0031, AEWS1031 or AEWS1221 (for patients with Ewing sarcoma or PNET); or MAP as per COG protocol AOST0331 (for patients with osteosarcoma).
  • For Part B subjects must meet all of the following eligibility criteria.
  • Age: ≥ 12 months of age at time of study enrollment
  • Diagnosis: Patients with histologic diagnosis (by institutional pathologist) of newly diagnosed Ewing sarcoma or peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) of bone or soft tissue
  • Prior Therapy:
    • Patients should have had only frontline therapy as per institutional standard, and maintenance therapy if given (no relapse therapy).
    • If frontline systemic therapy already completed (not including maintenance or metastatic site radiation), therapy completed within 6 months of enrollment to Part B.
    • Subjects must have a willing physician provider supporting their participation in Part B.
  • For Part B, providers are eligible to receive the provider survey if they are listed as the primary provider for the patient at the study site.

Age in the registry: 12 months to 50 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (15)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
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AtlantaUnited StatesUnknown status
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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BostonUnited StatesUnknown status
Brigham and Women's Hospital
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BostonUnited StatesUnknown status
Boston Children's Hospital
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BostonUnited StatesUnknown status
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
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BostonUnited StatesUnknown status
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
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CincinnatiUnited StatesUnknown status
Nationwide Children's Hospital
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ColumbusUnited StatesUnknown status
UT Southwestern Medical Center
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DallasUnited StatesUnknown status
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
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Los AngelesUnited StatesUnknown status
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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MemphisUnited StatesUnknown status
Children's Hospital's and Clinics of Minnesota
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MinneapolisUnited StatesUnknown status
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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PhiladelphiaUnited StatesUnknown status
Lifespan / Rhode Island Hospital
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ProvidenceUnited StatesUnknown status
University of Utah Childrens Medical Center
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Salt Lake CityUnited StatesUnknown status
Seattle Children's Hospital
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SeattleUnited StatesUnknown status

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