Stomach Cancer Exosome-based Detection

Gastric Cancer Clinical Trial

— DESTINEX  

Official title:

Early Detection of Stomach Cancer With a Liquid Biopsy Based on Exosomal Micro-RNA

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06342427
• Other study ID #: 23228/DESTINEX
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: March 15, 2023
• Est. completion date: March 15, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: City of Hope Medical Center
• Contact: Ajay Goel, PhD
• Phone: 6262183452
• Email: AJGOEL[@]COH.ORG
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Gastric cancer continues to have a poor prognosis primarily due to the inability to detect it in its early stages. This study will develop and validate a blood assay to facilitate the non-invasive detection of gastric cancer.

Description:

Gastric cancer continues to have a poor prognosis primarily due to the inability to detect it in its early stages. Because conventional endoscopy is invasive and costly, gastric cancer is currently not considered to be screenable at a population level. However, if one could find less invasive and cheaper tools that accurately detect gastric cancer in its early stages, it could make a significant difference. Accurate biomarkers could help identify patients with gastric cancer before it becomes incurable. This study aims to develop a non-invasive test to detect gastric cancer early. It consists of four phases: 1. Discovering potential biomarkers with a comprehensive and genome-wide transcriptomic sequencing analysis that will involve gastric cancer tissue, normal tissue, and serum samples from patients with gastric cancer, as well as samples from people without the disease. 2. Using machine learning to develop a combination "signature" of cell-free (cf) and exosomal (exo)-miRNA in serum specimens from a training cohort. 3. A validation of this signature in an independent cohort to confirm its accuracy. 4. An evaluation of the temporal trend of this signature in paired samples collected pre-surgery and post-surgery to investigate their potential and specificity as indicators of minimal residual disease. In summary, this study aims to develop a highly accurate and cost-effective blood test for detecting gastric cancer early. Success could lead to significant improvements in clinical practice by catching cancer when it is most treatable. By combining different genetic markers (cell-free microRNA and exosomal microRNA) for accuracy, this study has the potential to reduce gastric cancer deaths and could lead to new screening methods in the future.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 800
• Est. completion date: March 15, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: March 15, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Histological diagnosis of stage I, II, III, IV gastric cancer (TNM classification, 8th edition) (cases).
• Received standard diagnostic and staging procedures as per local guidelines, and at least one sample was drawn before receiving any curative-intent treatment.
• Confirmed cancer-free status at the time of study inclusion (Non-disease controls).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Lack of written informed consent.
• Systemic therapy before sampling.
• Synchronous gastric and non-gastric cancer diagnosed at or before surgery.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Carcinoma in Situ
• Gastric Adenocarcinoma
• Gastric Cancer
• Gastric Cancer in Situ
• Gastric Cancer Metastatic to Lung
• Gastric Cancer Stage
• Gastric Cancer Stage II
• Gastric Cancer Stage III
• Gastric Cancer Stage IIIB
• Gastric Cancer Stage IV
• Gastric Lesion
• Gastric Neoplasm
• Neoplasms
• Stomach Neoplasms

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• DESTINEX
A panel of microRNA, whose expression level is tested in serum samples.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Japan	Nagoya University	Nagoya
Japan	Mie University	Tsu
United States	City of Hope Medical Center	Duarte	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
City of Hope Medical Center

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

United States,  Japan, 

References & Publications (24)

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Sensitivity	True positive rate: the probability of a positive test result, conditioned on the individual truly being positive	Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Specificity	True negative rate: the probability of a negative test result, conditioned on the individual truly being negative	Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Proportion of correct predictions (true positives and true negatives) among the total cases (i.e., accuracy)	A measure of trueness: proportion of correct predictions (both true positives and true negatives) among the total number of cases examined	Through study completion, an average of 1 year