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Prostate Cancer AggressivenessNCT04052048

Active Surveillance SNEP Assay Registry Trial for Prostate Cancer

An observational study of Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness, run by Immunis.AI at 1 site in United States.

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Looking for participants now. Contact the study team or a site below to ask about taking part.

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Trial summary

A multi-center, prospective active surveillance registry trial assessing the performance of a non-invasive blood test for indolent prostate cancer disease management. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 40 to 80 years, men only
Conditions the study is for
Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness
What is being tested?
Subtraction Normalized Expression of Phagocytes Blood Test
How many people
2,000 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
9 Sep 2019to 30 Sep 2029
How long will I take part?
10 Years
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 40 to 80 years
  • Men only
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Study population: Men with prostate cancer who are on or are candidates for Active surveillance.

Who may be able to join

  • Men between 40-80 of age with at least a 10-year life expectancy
  • All active surveillance protocols are accepted
  • No PSA limits
  • Category 1:
  • Patient is currently on active surveillance with only ONE previous low grade prostate biopsy.
  • Patient must already be scheduled for their 1st annual biopsy under their active surveillance protocol within 90 days of enrollment date.
  • Category 2:
  • Patient is recently diagnosed with low grade prostate cancer but has decided against active surveillance and is scheduled for radical prostatectomy within 90 days of enrollment date.

Who cannot join

  • Men on watchful waiting i.e. those with less than 10-year life expectancy with no intent for curative therapy
  • Men with symptoms or rising PSA who have not been proven to have cancer by tissue biopsy i.e. men with only negative prostate biopsies.
  • Patients with a history of a different cancer (except basal cell carcinoma)

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

United States1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Comprehensive Urology

    Royal Oak, Michigan, 48197

    Bridget Makhlouf, 248-336-1080, bmakhlouf@urologist.org

    Patrick Keating, 248-336-1080, pkeating@urologist.org

    Recruiting

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About this study

Official title: A Multi-center, Prospective Active Surveillance Registry Trial Assessing the Performance of a Non-invasive Immunogenomic Blood Test for Indolent Prostate Cancer Disease Management.

A multi-center, prospective active surveillance registry trial assessing the performance of a non-invasive blood test for indolent prostate cancer disease management.

Read the detailed description

The analysis population is defined as all the set of de-identified patient results received from the practices who met the inclusion / exclusion criteria. A target recruitment of 2000 subjects with an expected loss of 20% (400 subjects) and an overall event rate of 30% (480 subjects of 1600) will result in 480 cases and 1120 controls, where cases are defined as those patients with NCCN unfavorable intermediate risk or worse disease. With a significance level alpha of 0.05, the number of cases above will result in a statistical power (1-ß=0.2) of at least 80% to show a significant increase in performance of the full assay over clinical variables alone, assuming that performance characteristics are similar to those observed in a retrospective, independent training cohort and that the patients in the SAFELY cohort resemble this same training population.

Being tested
Subtraction Normalized Expression of Phagocytes Blood Test
Medical subject headings
Prostate Cancer, Hereditary, 7

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Subtraction Normalized Expression of Phagocytes Blood TestDiagnostic test

    Non-invasive blood based immunogenomic assay that targets RNA sequencing to identify disease and disease aggressiveness

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Collect performance results on assay's ability to identify occult aggressive disease in active surveillance population.

    Collect information from repeat biopsy including any increase in gleason grade, increase in number of cores positive, and increase in % cross sectional surface area involved by tumor from the repeat biopsy.

    Measured: 1 year

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. Validate immunogenomic assay's ability to serve as an ongoing, non-invasive tool to monitor patient risk for disease progression as detected by repeat biopsy.

    On an annual basis, collect follow-up frequency data for each patient including optional repeat blood testing, repeat biopsy data, disease management decisions, and disease progression.

    Measured: 10 years

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted9 Aug 2019
  2. Study start9 Sep 2019
  3. Primary completion15 Nov 2026 (estimated)
  4. Study completion30 Sep 2029 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrolment
2,000 participants (estimated)
Target duration
10 Years
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04052048
Sponsor's protocol ID
ONC-AS-2019
Status last verified
Mar 2026
First submitted
7 Aug 2019
Last updated
2 Apr 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
Yes
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Palmer C, Diehn M, Alizadeh AA, Brown PO. Cell-type specific gene expression profiles of leukocytes in human peripheral blood. BMC Genomics. 2006 May 16;7:115. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-115.

    PubMed 16704732
  • Schmidl C, Renner K, Peter K, Eder R, Lassmann T, Balwierz PJ, Itoh M, Nagao-Sato S, Kawaji H, Carninci P, Suzuki H, Hayashizaki Y, Andreesen R, Hume DA, Hoffmann P, Forrest AR, Kreutz MP, Edinger M, Rehli M; FANTOM consortium. Transcription and enhancer profiling in human monocyte subsets. Blood. 2014 Apr 24;123(17):e90-9. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-02-484188. Epub 2014 Mar 26.

    PubMed 24671955
  • Hashimoto S, Nagai S, Sese J, Suzuki T, Obata A, Sato T, Toyoda N, Dong HY, Kurachi M, Nagahata T, Shizuno K, Morishita S, Matsushima K. Gene expression profile in human leukocytes. Blood. 2003 May 1;101(9):3509-13. doi: 10.1182/blood-2002-06-1866. Epub 2003 Jan 9.

    PubMed 12522010
  • Dale DC, Boxer L, Liles WC. The phagocytes: neutrophils and monocytes. Blood. 2008 Aug 15;112(4):935-45. doi: 10.1182/blood-2007-12-077917.

    PubMed 18684880
  • Gutknecht MF, Bouton AH. Functional significance of mononuclear phagocyte populations generated through adult hematopoiesis. J Leukoc Biol. 2014 Dec;96(6):969-80. doi: 10.1189/jlb.1RI0414-195R. Epub 2014 Sep 15.

    PubMed 25225678
  • Chow A, Brown BD, Merad M. Studying the mononuclear phagocyte system in the molecular age. Nat Rev Immunol. 2011 Oct 25;11(11):788-98. doi: 10.1038/nri3087.

    PubMed 22025056
  • Epstein JI. An update of the Gleason grading system. J Urol. 2010 Feb;183(2):433-40. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2009.10.046. Epub 2009 Dec 14.

    PubMed 20006878
  • Grignon DJ. Prostate cancer reporting and staging: needle biopsy and radical prostatectomy specimens. Mod Pathol. 2018 Jan;31(S1):S96-109. doi: 10.1038/modpathol.2017.167.

    PubMed 29297497
  • Boutros PC, Fraser M, Harding NJ, de Borja R, Trudel D, Lalonde E, Meng A, Hennings-Yeomans PH, McPherson A, Sabelnykova VY, Zia A, Fox NS, Livingstone J, Shiah YJ, Wang J, Beck TA, Have CL, Chong T, Sam M, Johns J, Timms L, Buchner N, Wong A, Watson JD, Simmons TT, P'ng C, Zafarana G, Nguyen F, Luo X, Chu KC, Prokopec SD, Sykes J, Dal Pra A, Berlin A, Brown A, Chan-Seng-Yue MA, Yousif F, Denroche RE, Chong LC, Chen GM, Jung E, Fung C, Starmans MH, Chen H, Govind SK, Hawley J, D'Costa A, Pintilie M, Waggott D, Hach F, Lambin P, Muthuswamy LB, Cooper C, Eeles R, Neal D, Tetu B, Sahinalp C, Stein LD, Fleshner N, Shah SP, Collins CC, Hudson TJ, McPherson JD, van der Kwast T, Bristow RG. Spatial genomic heterogeneity within localized, multifocal prostate cancer. Nat Genet. 2015 Jul;47(7):736-45. doi: 10.1038/ng.3315. Epub 2015 May 25.

    PubMed 26005866
  • Womble PR, Montie JE, Ye Z, Linsell SM, Lane BR, Miller DC; Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative. Contemporary use of initial active surveillance among men in Michigan with low-risk prostate cancer. Eur Urol. 2015 Jan;67(1):44-50. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2014.08.024. Epub 2014 Aug 24.

    PubMed 25159890
  • Cher ML, Dhir A, Auffenberg GB, Linsell S, Gao Y, Rosenberg B, Jafri SM, Klotz L, Miller DC, Ghani KR, Bernstein SJ, Montie JE, Lane BR; Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative. Appropriateness Criteria for Active Surveillance of Prostate Cancer. J Urol. 2017 Jan;197(1):67-74. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2016.07.005. Epub 2016 Jul 14.

    PubMed 27422298

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness, run by Immunis.AI at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 8 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 2 Apr 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Jessica DeHart (619-316-1416, jessica.dehart@oncocellmdx.com), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Collect performance results on assay's ability to identify occult aggressive disease in active surveillance population. (time frame: 1 year). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT04052048, which also lists 11 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 2 Apr 2026.

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