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RecruitingNCT03702309

Liquid Biopsy Evaluation and Repository Development at Princess Margaret

Status
Recruiting
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
2,500 (estimated)
Sponsor
University Health Network, Toronto · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

The objective of this protocol is to develop an institution-wide liquid biopsy protocol that will establish a common process for collecting blood and corresponding archived tumor specimens for future research studies at the University Health Network's Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Circulating cell-free nucleic acids (cfNA), including cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and cell-free RNA (cfRNA), are non-invasive, real-time biomarkers that can provide diagnostic and prognostic information before cancer diagnosis, during cancer treatment, and at disease progression. Cancer research scientists and clinicians at the Princess Margaret are interested in incorporating the collection of peripheral blood samples ("liquid biopsies") into research protocols as a means of non-invasively assessing tumor progression and response to treatment at multiple time points during a patient's course of disease.

Conditions

Timeline

Start date
2017-08-03
Primary completion
2026-07-06
Completion
2026-07-06
First posted
2018-10-11
Last updated
2025-11-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03702309. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.