RNA Precision Oncology in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer (HIPPOCRATES)

A Phase Ib High-throughput Pancreas Precision Oncology Study Investigating the Feasibility, Efficacy, and Pharmacodynamics of Cell Regulatory-network Analysis Based Therapy Selection in Advanced Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

The overall objective of this project is to determinate the feasibility of administering personalized therapy to subjects with advanced pancreatic cancer utilizing the novel OncoTreat platform. The primary objective of this study is to assess the feasibility of implementing the OncoTreat framework in patients with newly diagnosed, untreated metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: Pancreatic Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: OncoTreat

Detailed Description

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is a major health problem in the United States and throughout the world. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) has the worst prognosis of any major malignancy in the United States and, unlike other common cancers, annual deaths from PDA are rising. During 2017, it is estimated that 53,670 people were diagnosed with PDA and approximately 43,090 people died from PDA in the U.S. Despite recent advances, cytotoxic chemotherapy for PDA has been disappointing with response rates of 20-30% for the most active regimens and little activity for targeted therapies. Even among the small subset of patients who are suitable for surgical resection at the time of diagnosis, complete resection is followed by recurrence in >90% of patients without further systemic therapy, with a median time to recurrence of 6.9 months. Thus all PDA patients require systemic chemotherapy and more effective regimens are urgently needed.

Previous versions of this record contained reference to an observational arm in error. The observational arm has been removed from the record for consistency with the study protocol.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 16
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • New York
    • New York, New York, United States, 10032
      • Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Be willing and able to provide written informed consent for the trial.
• Age ≥18 years of age on day of signing informed consent.
• Have histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma or be willing to undergo a biopsy with confirmed pathology prior to starting therapy.
• Have untreated disease that is unresectable due to being metastatic or locally advanced without potential of surgery as assessed by the treating physician.
• Subjects who have documented disease recurrence greater than 6 months after completing neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy for limited disease will be eligible for the study.
• Have a predicted life expectancy of greater than 6 months.
• Subjects must have a plan to obtain a new core biopsy of a primary and/or metastatic lesion planned as part of routine care for which consent is obtained separately or (b) consent to be biopsied to satisfy the tissue requirements of this protocol.

Exclusion Criteria:

Has previously received neoadjvuant or adjuvant chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer unless greater than 6 months has passed since completion of adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy and initiation of therapy for recurrent or metastatic disease.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: Intervention Arm; Individuals who meet the eligibility criteria based on their provided tissue sample will be followed by the investigators to obtain medical information every 4 weeks. This follow-up will consist of a review of medical records, contact with the participant's treating physician, or personal contact between the participant and the investigators at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). During the study, their tumor tissue will be evaluated to identify medications that may help treat the cancer. The results of these tests will be reviewed by experts on a Precision Medicine Tumor Board (PMTB) and these experts may recommend a specific treatment to the participant or participant's physician.These participants will continue to be followed until death or withdrawal of consent from the study.

Device: OncoTreat; OncoTreat is a computational pipeline that begins with a tumor expression profile and ends with a list of several candidate regimens.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of Participants Assigned Therapy With OncoTreat	The primary outcome of the study is whether a subject is assigned a therapy that they are able to begin on Part 2 of this study. Assignment of therapy is based on results from OncoTreat analysis and recommendations of the Precision Medicine Tumor Board (PMTB) which included assessment of availability and expected toxicity of identified agents.	36 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Columbia University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Gulam Manji, MD, Columbia University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 7, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 15, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): March 31, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 15, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 15, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): July 20, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 3, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 18, 2025
• Last Verified: March 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Precision medicine; Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA)
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Endocrine System Diseases; Neoplasms by Site; Neoplasms; Digestive System Neoplasms; Digestive System Diseases; Endocrine Gland Neoplasms; Pancreatic Diseases; Pancreatic Neoplasms
• Other Study ID Numbers: AAAR6703

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: Yes
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No