Circulating Tumor Cell Genome in Peripheral Blood From Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients Under Radiotherapy
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common cause of cancer mortality in Asia. Most patients were presented with advanced disease. Percutaneous ethanol injection, radiofrequency ablation, and transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) are not considered as a curative treatment and have achieved very limited success in eradicating large HCC or tumors causing portal vein thrombosis. With the development of novel radiotherapy (RT) technique, RT can be safely given to patients with larger tumor or portal vein thrombosis. However, RT could achieve a tumor response rate of approximately 50 %. Currently, there was a paucity of studies regarding a quantitative biomarker to predict tumor response or forecast the outcome in advance. To optimize the therapeutic index, there is a need to seek effective biomarkers for personal medicine because pretreatment AFP is not always useful as a surrogate marker in some of the patients.
The present study is to investigate whether circulating tumor cell genome in peripheral blood can be used to predict RT response in HCC. We will use the blood sample from patients with locally advanced HCC receiving RT. By using next generation sequencing, We are going to explore the quantity and quality changes of DNAs and RNAs in the patient's serum or plasma. By this way, genomic expression in peripheral blood may play a key role in determining the optimal therapeutic strategies for HCC patients by predicting tumor response to RT.
Studieoversigt
Status
Status
Betingelser
Betingelser
Intervention / Behandling
Intervention / Behandling
Detaljeret beskrivelse
Undersøgelsestype
Undersøgelsestype
Tilmelding (Forventet)
Tilmelding
Kontakter og lokationer
Studiesteder
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Taichung, Taiwan, 404
- China Medical University Hospital
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Deltagelseskriterier
Berettigelseskriterier
Berettigelseskriterier
Aldre berettiget til at studere
Tager imod sunde frivillige
Køn, der er berettiget til at studere
Prøveudtagningsmetode
Studiebefolkning
Beskrivelse
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with unresectable hepatoma with transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) failure or who are not suitable for TACE. A maximal tumor diameter > 3.0 cm
- Age > 20, and < 80 years
- ECOG 0 or 1
- Life expectancy of at least 12 weeks
- Child-Pugh A
- Cancer of the Liver Italian Program (CLIP) score ≦ 3
- Pretreatment liver function test and renal function test:Total bilirubin < 1.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN), GOP/GPT ≦ 5 X of upper limit of normal range, Alkaline phosphatase ≦ 4X of ULN, Prothrombin time / partial prothrombin time < 1.5 X of ULN, Serum Creatinine ≦ 1.0 x ULN
- Pretreatment blood count:Hemoglobulin ≧ 9 g/dl, Absolute neutrophil count ≧ 1500/mm3,Platelet count ≧ 100,000/mm3
- Subjects with at least one uni-dimensional or bi-dimensional measurable lesion and lesion must be measured by CT scan
Exclusion Criteria:
- Child-Pugh C
- CLIP score ≧ 4
- Patients with evidence of extrahepatic or metastatic disease
- Patients with evidence of massive ascites
- Patients receiving previous irradiation to liver
Studieplan
Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?
Design detaljer
Antal grupper/kohorter
Kohorter og interventioner
Gruppe / kohorteGruppe / kohorte |
Intervention / BehandlingIntervention / Behandling |
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Hepatoma, Circulating tumor genome
Hepatoma requiring radiotherapy
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hepatoma requiring radiotherapy
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Hvad måler undersøgelsen?
Primære resultatmål
Primære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse |
Tidsramme |
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Response rate
Tidsramme: one month
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The correlation between response rate and circulating tumor cell genome
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one month
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Sekundære resultatmål
Sekundære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Tidsramme |
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Overall survival, relapse-free survival
Tidsramme: two year
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two year
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Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere
Sponsor
Sponsor
Efterforskere
Efterforskere
- Studieleder: Shang-Wen Chen, MD, China Medical University Hosptal
Datoer for undersøgelser
Studer store datoer
Studiestart
Studiestart
Primær færdiggørelse (Forventet)
Primær færdiggørelse
Studieafslutning (Forventet)
Studieafslutning
Datoer for studieregistrering
Først indsendt
Først indsendt
Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier
Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier
Først opslået (Skøn)
Først opslået
Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler
Sidste opdatering sendt (Skøn)
Sidste opdatering sendt
Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier
Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier
Sidst verificeret
Sidst verificeret
Mere information
Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse
Yderligere relevante MeSH-vilkår
- Sygdomme i fordøjelsessystemet
- Patologiske processer
- Neoplasmer efter histologisk type
- Neoplasmer
- Neoplasmer efter sted
- Adenocarcinom
- Neoplasmer, kirtel og epitel
- Neoplasmer i fordøjelsessystemet
- Leversygdomme
- Neoplasmer i leveren
- Neoplastiske processer
- Neoplasma Metastase
- Karcinom
- Carcinom, hepatocellulært
- Neoplastiske celler, cirkulerende
Andre undersøgelses-id-numre
Andre undersøgelses-id-numre
- CMUH102-REC2-112
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