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CompletedNCT01723969

Screening Platform for Clinical Trials in Advanced Colorectal Cancer

Screening Platform of the EORTC for Clinical Trials in Advanced Colorectal Cancer "SPECTAcolor"

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
668 (actual)
Sponsor
European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC · Network
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

The EORTC GastroIntestinal Tract Cancer Group and the EORTC HeadQuarters wish to set up a European screening platform for advanced colo-rectal cancer (CRC) patients. The goal of this screening platform is to provide quick access to new drugs to patients by offering a new structure for clinical trials. Currently some of the most challenging clinical questions arise from the molecular sub-division of CRC that would theoretically allow to inhibit the specific, altered pathways in the patients. A major problem for trials in this "personalized medicine" is that the low frequency of the different mutations requires a high effort for screening and identifying the patients. The EORTC CRC screening platform will hopefully offer a feasible and efficient way to characterize the patients on the molecular basis of their tumors and allow to offer them rapid and preferential participation in clinical studies with new drugs targeted to their specific pathway alterations.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
GENETICTumour markers testingTumour markers testing in patients advanced or metastatic colo-rectal cancer.

Timeline

Start date
2013-09-01
Primary completion
2019-04-10
Completion
2020-03-10
First posted
2012-11-08
Last updated
2022-07-07

Locations

27 sites across 11 countries: Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01723969. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.