NCT02486094

Study of PRoliferation and Apoptosis in Rectal Cancer, Predictive & Prognostic biOmarkers: Histopathology and Imaging

Study Of PRoliferation and Apoptosis in Rectal caNcer as Predictive and Prognostic biOmarkers: a Histopathology and Imaging Analysis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 148 (actual)
• Sponsor: Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study tests biopsy and tissue from patients who have been treated for primary rectal cancer at the Royal Marsden Hospital between 2011 and 2013, who have an mrTRG score at post-chemoradiotherapy MRI. It is a retrospective pilot study to determine the apoptotic and proliferative index count pre and post chemoradiotherapy.

Detailed description

The investigators hope to validate the apoptotic and proliferative index as a predictive response marker and lend support to mrTRG as a putative prognostic tool in the treatment pathway for rectal cancer patients. Even though this is a retrospective study, the investigators hope that pre-treatment apoptotic and proliferative scores will correlate to post treatment response and mrTRG scores. In doing so, the investigators can predict how patients will respond to treatment from initial diagnostic biopsies and foresee a patients individual treatment plan.

Conditions

• Neoplasms
• Colorectal Neoplasms
• Rectal Diseases
• Gastrointestinal Neoplasms

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-06-01
• Primary completion: 2016-09-01
• Completion: 2017-06-07
• First posted: 2015-07-01
• Last updated: 2017-06-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom