Tempus Sculptor Study: Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) Observational Study

Small Cell Lung Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

Tempus Small Cell Lung Cancer Observational Study (Sculptor): A Tissue and Longitudinal Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) Biomarker Profiling Study of Patients With Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) Using Comprehensive Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Assays

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05257551
• Other study ID #: TP-CA-003
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: July 13, 2022
• Est. completion date: March 2026

Study information

• Verified date: May 2024
• Source: Tempus AI
• Contact: Sculptor Study
• Phone: 833-514-4187
• Email: sculptor-study[@]tempus.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The study is a non-interventional evaluation of participants with SCLC who will receive diagnostic and (where possible) post-progression tumor tissue profiling, alongside plasma ctDNA biomarker profiling in addition to their standard of care therapy and disease surveillance.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: March 2026
• Est. primary completion date: March 2026
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Histologically confirmed small cell lung cancer diagnosis

• Diagnosis made with excisional or core needle biopsy specimen (fine needle aspirate may be permitted with approval from the PI)

• Subjects must submit fresh or archived FFPE tumor sample to the central laboratory

• ECOG performance status of 0 or 1 at time of enrollment

• Planned extensive stage first-line therapy of etoposide plus carboplatin plus PD-L1 inhibitor (atezolizumab or durvalumab)

• Extensive stage disease at time of diagnosis

• Willing and able to provide informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of prior systemic treatment of SCLC

• History of radiotherapy or planned radiotherapy to all measurable disease foci

• Prior diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer

• Mixed small cell and non-small cell histology

• Suspected metastatic cancer from other sites (i.e., those without a known or suspected lung primary diagnosis)

• Not willing to have additional blood samples collected

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Lung Neoplasms
• Small Cell Lung Cancer
• Small Cell Lung Carcinoma

Intervention

Other:
• Observation
No intervention

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Colorado	Aurora	Colorado
United States	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore	Maryland
United States	University of North Carolina	Chapel Hill	North Carolina
United States	TriHealth Cancer Institute	Cincinnati	Ohio
United States	OhioHealth Research Institute	Columbus	Ohio
United States	Englewood Health Medical Center	Englewood	New Jersey
United States	Cancer and Blood Specialty Clinic	Los Alamitos	California
United States	Illinois Cancer Care	Peoria	Illinois
United States	Oklahoma Cancer Specialists and Research Institutes	Tulsa	Oklahoma
United States	Cancer Care Association of York	York	Pennsylvania

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Tempus AI	AstraZeneca

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	To measure biomarkers of SCLC using the TEMPUS xT assay	To measure specific biomarkers of SCLC subtypes and outcomes using the TEMPUS xT assay	Up to 4 years
Other	To identify biomarkers and mechanisms of progression	To identify biomarkers and mechanisms of progression from EP + PDL1-i therapy	Up to 4 years
Other	To study progression free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS)	To study real-world PFS and OS as measured by the treating clinician	Up to 4 years
Primary	To determine if tumor tissue transcriptional subtypes can be detected	To determine prospectively if SCLC tumor tissue transcriptional subtypes can be detected by Tempus|xT RNAseq	Up to 4 years
Primary	To characterize relationship between tissue transcriptional subtype and clinical outcomes	To characterize the relationship between tissue transcriptional subtype and clinical outcomes for EP+PDL1-i therapy based on collection of longitudinal information from medical records	Up to 4 years
Secondary	To assess the potential for liquid biopsy in SCLC	To use blood based assays to assess the complementarity of circulating biomarkers to tissue based methods	Up to 4 years
Secondary	To test which tissue and sample variables confound gene expression subtypes	To measure how variable transcriptional measurements are across tissue characteristics such as site of biopsy and type of biopsy	Up to 4 years