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Lung CancerCINSBDRILCPNCT04203095

Chromosomal Instability as a Surrogate Biomarker of Drug Resistance in Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer Patients

An observational study of Lung Cancer, run by Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, China at 1 site in China.

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Status not confirmed. The sponsor has not verified this record for over two years, so it may be out of date.

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Trial summary

PD1, as an immune checkpoint inhibitor, has provided a new therapeutic approach for patients with cancer, including patients. Although immunotherapy has proven effective, most patients do not benefit from it because of a large proportion which developing primary and acquired resistance. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 20 to 70 years
Conditions the study is for
Lung Cancer
What is being tested?
the level of plasma cfDNA CINs
How many people
40 participants
Where
1 siteChina
Study dates
10 Nov 2019to 11 Nov 2021
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

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 20 to 70 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Study population: Patients diagnosed with lung cancer in Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital (SPH) from Aug 2019 till the end of this study.

Who may be able to join

  • Stage IIIa-IVb Non-small-cell lung cancer patients without EGFR,ALK,ROS1,c-Met driven gene mutation. Male or female patients aged 20-70 years.
  • Patients planed to receive PD1 antibody treatment with or without chemotherapy, including as the neo-adjuvant therapy.
  • The subjects' age, sex, marital and reproductive history, collection time, pathology, cytology and imaging diagnosis were complete.
  • Participants signed informed consent form.

Who cannot join

  • Eligible to target therapy with driven gene mutation.
  • Without measurable target lesion according to the RECIST criteria.
  • Age under 20 years or more than 70.
  • Individuals unwilling to sign the consent form or unwilling to provide PB for test or unwilling to provide the medical record.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

China1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Di Zheng

    Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality

    Di Du, PhD, 8615800706091 ext. 8615800706091, changzheng_pg@163.com

    Recruiting

Other trials in China

About this study

Official title: Dynamic Monitor of Serum Chromosomal Instability Detected by UCAD as a Surrogate Biomarker of Treatment Efficacy in PD1 Inhibitor Based Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer Patients

PD1, as an immune checkpoint inhibitor, has provided a new therapeutic approach for patients with cancer, including patients. Although immunotherapy has proven effective, most patients do not benefit from it because of a large proportion which developing primary and acquired resistance. However, there is still a lack of accurate and effective molecular biomarkers to accurately evaluate the drug resistance of patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI), so as to maximize the therapeutic effect in patients. Chromosomal instability (CIN) is one of the most prominent and common characteristics of solid tumors, accelerating the development of anti-cancer drug resistance, often leading to treatment failure and disease recurrence, which limits the effectiveness of most current treatments. Hence the aim of this study is to evaluate dynamic CIN continuously monitored in the blood of patients with lung cancer treated with ICIs with Ultrasensitive Chromosomal Aneuploidy Detection (UCAD) to establish a new molecular immune resistance evaluation index. Further, the correlation between the evolution of tumor cloning and ICI resistance in patients during treatment was analyzed based on the results of dynamic CIN detection. This not only evaluate the efficacy of the ICI treatment in real-time, but also enables better understanding and overcoming the resistance mechanism of immunotherapy in the future.

Read the detailed description

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) targeted to PD-1/PD-L1 axis has a higher response rate and lower incidence of side effects compared with anti-CTLA4, and has been proved to have survival advantages in many different malignant tumors, which has been approved as a second-line or first-line treatment for a growing number of malignancies, including lung cancer. As results of retrospective analysis led by Roberto Ferrara, although the efficacy of ICI treatment is obvious in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), there are significant differences in efficacy and responsiveness in different patients. Therefore, establishing predictive biomarkers for immunotherapy is the key to maximizing the therapeutic effect and studying drug resistance. According to clinical trial data after immunotherapy, there are three main groups: (1) those who respond initially and continue to respond (responders); (2) those who have never responded (primary resistance); (3) Those who initially respond but eventually develop into disease progression (secondary resistance).Currently, PD-L1 expression is one of the most common biomarkers for immunotherapy, PD-L1 expression itself does not accurately predict immunotherapy response, due to that the many patients with higher PD-L1 have no response to clinical treatment, and many patients with lower PD-L1 respond better. Although tumor mutation burden (TMB ) used as a biomarker for the treatment of NSCLC by Opdivo could better differentiate the people who benefit compared with PD-L1, however, TMB as a biomarker to determine the criteria for the application of ICI treatment resistance is also limited because of its specific mechanism involved in tumor immune regulation needs to be further clarified and high cost of TMB detection using NGS for whole exome sequencing analysis.

As one of the most prominent and common features of solid tumors, chromosomal instability (CIN) accelerates the development of anticancer drug resistance, often leading to treatment failure and disease recurrence, which limits the effectiveness of most current treatments. Previous studies have shown that CIN promotes the emergence of multidrug resistance by providing higher levels of genetic diversity, leading to multidrug resistance. In NSCLC, the researchers found that genomic doubling and sustained dynamic CIN were associated with intratumoral heterogeneity and led to parallel evolution of CDNAs, including CDK4, FOXA1, and BCL11A. It is worth noting that the study found consistency in the variation of mutation levels, indicating that CIN in lung cancer is more likely to select driving events than other mutation processes. CIN enables cells to enter several different evolutionary trajectories and adapt to the selective pressure generated by treatment, which is the basis of drug resistance. Based on the above, CIN may become a more accurate and effective biomarker for the study of drug resistance mechanism of ICI in lung cancer. NGS technology can obtain more comprehensive genomic information while detecting cost reduction, making CIN detection more accurate and practical than FISH used for evaluating CIN in patient commonly.As a new Detection method based on NGS technology, Ultrasensitive Chromosomal Aneuploidy Detection (UCAD) has been developed in our previous study. In which, low-coverage whole-genome sequencing technology based on NGS was adopted to detect CIN of ctDNA in patients' peripheral blood, and bioinformatics analysis was performed to determine the risk of malignancy (or recurrence) and the extent of tumor burden and CIN. It has important clinical value in auxiliary diagnosis, therapeutic effect monitoring, recurrence and metastasis monitoring and prognosis evaluation of tumor patients.

This study proposes that continuous dynamic CIN is related to intratumor heterogeneity, which drives parallel evolution of somatic copy-number alterations (SCNAs) and promotes the emergence of drug-resistant clones by providing a higher level of genetic diversity of tumor cells, thus leading to drug resistance in patients treated with ICI. Investigators aimed to continuously monitor dynamic CIN in the blood of patients with lung cancer after second-line treatment with UCAD to establish a new molecular immune resistance evaluation index. Further, the correlation between the evolution of tumor cloning and ICI resistance in patients during treatment was analyzed based on the detection results of dynamic CIN.

Conditions
Lung Cancer
Being tested
the level of plasma cfDNA CINs
Keywords
Chromosomal aneuploidy detection, lung cancer, PD-1/PD-L1, Drug resistance in Immunotherapy
Medical subject headings
Lung Neoplasms

What participants receive

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

  • the level of plasma cfDNA CINsDiagnostic test

    The extracted cfDNA from PB will be analyzed by UCAD to determine the level of CINs.

Study groups in NCT04203095
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
patient with PD1 antibody treatmentInvestigators will detect cfDNA CIN of lung cancer patients 1day (Day 0) before treatment with PD1 antibody, then Day 22 and Day 64 after treatment with PD1 antibody, as well as at the time of disease progression confirmed. The correlation of CIN and drug resistance to PD1 antibody was analyzed.
Receives: Diagnostic Test: the level of plasma cfDNA CINs

What is being measured

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

  1. the concordance bettwen CINs and treatment outcomes The concordance between CINs and treatment outcomes

    According to the correlation analysis between the patient's clinical drug resistance and CIN detected using UCAD, the stratified cutoff value interval of the patient was found, which was divided into four treatment outcomes based on CIN assessment : significant efficacy, primary drug resistance, acquired drug resistance and possible super progress.

    Measured: through study completion, an average of 3 months

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. the concordance bettwen CINs and clinical monitoring

    Analyze the correlation between the dynamic change of CIN using UCAD and the efficacy evaluation by the RECIST criteria , and compare the time difference and accuracy between UCAD and imaging test and serology.

    Measured: through study completion, an average of 3 months

Timeline

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

  1. First posted18 Dec 2019
  2. Study start10 Nov 2019
  3. Primary completion11 Nov 2020 (estimated)
  4. Study completion11 Nov 2021 (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
Case-control
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrolment
40 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04203095
Sponsor's protocol ID
ph-pg001
Acronym
CINSBDRILCP
Status last verified
Dec 2019
First submitted
16 Dec 2019
Last updated
24 Dec 2019
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Undecided

Publications

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Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Lung Cancer, run by Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, China at 1 site in China.

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 4 inclusion and 4 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: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 24 Dec 2019. 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 China. 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?

Results are not available in the source record.

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

Contact Di Zheng, PhD (8613801683953 ext. 8613801683953, pulmonarysh_pg@126.com), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

the concordance bettwen CINs and treatment outcomes The concordance between CINs and treatment outcomes (time frame: through study completion, an average of 3 months). 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 NCT04203095, which also lists 17 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 24 Dec 2019.

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