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De-scalation or swItch of Treatment According to Circulating tuMOr DNA Variation After 2 Cycles of Doublet Chemotherapy Plus Targeted Agent in Metastatic Unresectable Colorectal Cancer

Opening soon. This trial has been registered but has not opened yet. The sites and dates below are what the sponsor currently plans, and plans change.

Opening soonPhase 3Randomised

The trial at a glance
Registry number NCT06446557
Recruitment Opening soon
Phase Phase 3
Design randomised, open label
Taking part 408 people (planned)
Who can join aged 18 Years and over
Run by University Hospital, Rouen
Started
Main results expected
Record last updated

What is being tested

  • Drug treatment adaptation guided by ctDNA variation
  • Drug standard management

What it is measuring

Evaluate the superiority in quality-adjusted OS of an early treatment adaptation guided by ctDNA variation

This is the trial's main question — the one it is designed and sized to answer. Anything else it reports is a secondary finding, and secondary findings are far more likely to be chance.

Phase 3. Compares the treatment against current standard care in a large group. This is the design that changes practice.

How the researchers describe it

Background : In unresectable mCRC, a de-escalation strategy using maintenance or chemotherapy (CT) discontinuation in selected cases is considered as a valid option in non-progressive patients after a first-line induction of doublet CT + targeted agent (TA) (1-7).

In this context, circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is considered very promising to optimize decision making. Indeed, ctDNA harbour the same main alterations of the tumor and has been recognized as biologically relevant to reflect tumor dynamics and therapeutic efficacy (8).

As reported in mCRC, that early variation of ctDNA during CT may be relevant to predict outcome (9-11). Indeed, patients with a ctDNA decrease from the first (C1) to the third (C3) cycles of CT (∆≥80% or ctDNA<0.1 ng/ml at C3) or without ctDNA detectable at C1 and C3 have significant better survival as compared to patients with less decrease or with ctDNA increase (10).

Written by the trial’s sponsor, quoted from its ClinicalTrials.gov record.

What this trial is looking for

Genotype

  • Any genotype
Disease

  • Metastatic
  • Rectal
  • Colon

Read automatically from the criteria below, to make the list searchable. It is a summary of what the text mentions, not a decision about whether you qualify — and where the two disagree, the criteria are right and this is wrong.

Who the trial is looking for

Inclusion Criteria

  • Histologically proven diagnosis of RAS WT or mutant, MSS, BRAFV600E non-mutated colorectal cancer.
  • Left side or rectal cancer
  • An unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer not previously treated with chemotherapy for metastatic disease.
  • At least one measurable lesion according to RECIST criteria version 1.1.
  • Age ≥ 18 years.
  • ECOG PS ≤ 1
  • Neutrophils ≥ 1.5 x 10^9/L, Platelets ≥ 100 x 10^9/L, Hb > 9 g/dl.
  • Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 time the upper-normal limits (UNL) and ASAT (SGOT) and/or ALAT (SGPT) ≤ 2.5 x UNL, or 5 x UNL in case of liver metastases, alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2.5 x UNL, or 5 x UNL in case of liver metastases.
  • Creatinine clearance > 50 mL/min or serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x UNL.
  • The patient's urinary protein is ≤ 1+ on dipstick or routine urinalysis.
  • Adequate coagulation function [International Normalized Ratio (INR) ≤1.5 and Partial.

This is an extract. Whether you qualify is decided by the trial team against the full criteria, not by reading this page. Read the full eligibility criteria

Where it is running

Running at 1 site. Listed in: France.

Individual hospitals, and whether each is currently open, are listed on the registry record. Sites open and close throughout a trial.

Worth asking your oncology team

Being listed here is not a recommendation, and no one page can tell you whether a trial is right for you. These are the questions it raises.

  • Is this trial open at a hospital I could realistically travel to?
  • Given my stage, my previous treatment and my tumour's molecular profile, would I be eligible?
  • What would I be giving up by joining — is the comparison arm the treatment I would otherwise be having?
  • What is already known about the safety of what is being tested?

The source

Registry record NCT06446557, registered by University Hospital, Rouen on ClinicalTrials.gov, a public database run by the US National Library of Medicine. The details on this page come from that record and are only ever as current as the sponsor has kept it.

This is a listing of a registered clinical trial, reproduced for information. It is not a recommendation, this site has no connection to the trial or its sponsor, and being listed here says nothing about whether the treatment works. Talk to your own oncology team before pursuing any trial.

This article summarises published research for general information. It is not medical advice, and it is not a substitute for a conversation with your own oncology team, who know your case. Do not start, stop, or change any treatment or supplement on the basis of what you read here.


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