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Blood Clearance Kinetics of the Nucleosome and CTCF in Peritoneal Metastasis Colorectal Cancer. (NUCLEAR)

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Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status

Not yet enrolling

Conditions

Peritoneal Carcinomatosis
Peritoneal Metastases From Colorectal Cancer

Treatments

Biological: Blood sampling

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06929013
69HCL24_0852

Details and patient eligibility

About

Colorectal cancer is highly prevalent in France, ranking second among women and third among men. Its primary metastatic sites include the liver, lungs, and peritoneum. For peritoneal metastases, when the disease is moderately extensive, cytoreductive surgery is recommended in an expert centre. Following this procedure, the surgeon uses the CC-Score (Completeness of Cytoreduction after Surgery Score) to assess the completeness of surgical resection by evaluating the largest remaining tumor residue. This subjective score is currently the main prognostic factor for oncological outcomes post-surgery. However, there is no objective score based on biological criteria to evaluate the radicality of resection, despite the hypothesis that the micrometastatic component of the disease could be biologically assessed using appropriate circulating markers.

New biomarkers are emerging and appear relevant for determining the presence of tumor residual disease. Notable among these are circulating tumor DNA, which can detect mutated DNA released by tumor cells into the patient's blood through high-throughput sequencing, and new markers related to epigenetic modifications in cancer cells. These markers target specific nucleosomes or the transcription factor CTCF and show promise in detecting residual disease.

To effectively use these markers for constructing a biological score to detect residual disease in peritoneal carcinomatosis, it is essential to understand their perioperative kinetics. This is crucial because cellular debris release is expected post-surgery, necessitating the determination of the most relevant time point for measurement. Additionally, these markers appear to be correlated with blood inflammation levels, requiring a description of this correlation to account for this potential confounding factor. Finally, the sensitivity and specificity of these markers must be determined by studying their perioperative kinetics in patient groups undergoing surgeries other than cytoreductions for peritoneal carcinomatosis.

Enrollment

52 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Common criteria:

    • Male/female over 18 years of age.
    • Weight ≥ 55 kg at inclusion.
    • Signature of a free and informed consent form.
  • Specific criteria:

Group 1:

  • Peritoneal metastases colorectal cancer histologically proven
  • Synchronous or metachronous peritoneal metastases.
  • Patients eligible for initial cytoreduction surgery.
  • Non mucinous tumor (mucinous cells contingent <30%).

Group 2:

Colorectal cancer

Group 3:

Non-oncological chronic inflammatory diseases

Group 4:

Non-oncological chronic inflammatory diseases : parietal repairs, elective sigmoidectomy for diverticulosis

Group 5:

Abdominal sepsis conditions: peritonitis due to digestive perforation in non-oncological pathology, non-perforated appendicitis, cholecystitis.

Non inclusion Criteria:

  • Patient with an active cancer (excluding colorectal cancer).
  • Person with a progressive autoimmune disease.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Basic Science

Allocation

Non-Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

52 participants in 5 patient groups

Peritoneal metastases colorectal cancer
Experimental group
Description:
* Peritoneal metastases colorectal cancer histologically proven * Synchronous or metachronous peritoneal metastases. * Patients eligible for initial cytoreduction surgery. * Non mucinous tumor (mucinous cells contingent \<30%).
Treatment:
Biological: Blood sampling
Colorectal cancer
Experimental group
Description:
Histologically proven colorectal cancer with no known metastatic
Treatment:
Biological: Blood sampling
Non-oncological chronic inflammatory diseases
Experimental group
Description:
Surgery for inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's, chronic ulcerative colitis) such as ileocaecal resection, colectomy, and bowel resection.
Treatment:
Biological: Blood sampling
Non-malignant diseases
Experimental group
Description:
Non-inflammatory and non-oncological diseases: * Parietal repairs. * Elective sigmoidectomy for diverticulosis
Treatment:
Biological: Blood sampling
Abdominal sepsis conditions
Experimental group
Description:
* Peritonitis due to digestive perforation in non-oncological pathology. * Non-perforated appendicitis. * Cholecystitis.
Treatment:
Biological: Blood sampling

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Laurent VILLENEUVE, PhD; Vahan KEPENEKIAN, MD, PhD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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