Emergence of Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics in the Digestive Microbiota of Patients Treated With Anticancer Drugs (RAMA)

Centre Georges Francois Leclerc

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Endometrial Cancer; Upper Aerodigestive Tract Carcinoma; Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma; Gynecological Cancers; Cervical Cancers

Treatments: Other: Mandatory biological samples (blood and sell)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07093593

2025-A00013-46

Details and patient eligibility

About

Solid cancers are frequently treated with chemotherapies that target the DNA of cancer cells. It has recently come to light that bacteria are also the target of chemotherapies used in oncology. The results of current studies demonstrate the close link between the composition of the microbiota, the immune system, toxicity and the efficacy or otherwise of anti-cancer treatments.

In this context, the study will measure the influence of treatment with anticancer molecules known to activate the bacterial SOS response on the emergence of antibiotic-resistant commensal bacteria in the gut microbiota of cancer patients. Furthermore, this study will investigate the existence of a close link between changes in the intestinal microbiota determined by the induction or non-induction of the SOS response, bacterial translocation, the integrity of the intestinal barrier and the antitumor immune response.

The RAMA trial plans to collect stool and blood samples from two different cohorts of patients:

• Unexposed cohort: patients receiving anti-cancer treatment that does not induce bacterial SOS response.
• Exposed cohort: patients receiving anti-cancer treatment inducing the bacterial SOS response.

Patients' stools will be collected within 7 days of their first chemotherapy treatment and within 7 days of the 3rd chemotherapy cycle. Two blood samples will be taken at the same time as the stool samples.

The results obtained from this prospective clinical research will then be investigated in two experimental laboratory models.

The aim is to demonstrate that cytotoxic anticancer drugs promote the emergence of antibiotic-resistant commensal bacteria, by means of this large-scale study comprising a clinical component, which is the subject of the research presented in this protocol, combined with laboratory research components.

Enrollment: 260 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Men and women over 18

• Chemotherapy-naive patients.

• Patients due to start chemotherapy/radio chemotherapy who meet the criteria of the cohorts listed below :

  1. Squamous cell carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract (Non-metastatic, locally advanced, operable or not; Patients receiving concomitant radiochemotherapy using a platinum salt (cisplatin, carboplatin))
  2. Cervical and endometrial cancer (ocally advanced, Non-metastatic; Patients receiving concomitant radiochemotherapy using a platinum salt (cisplatin, carboplatin))
  3. Gynecological cancer (advanced stage ; Patient to receive platinum salt + paclitaxel chemotherapy)
  4. Mammary carcinoma (localised; Patient to receive adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy with epirubicin and cyclophosphamide without other associated treatment (targeted therapy / immunotherapy))
  5. Urothelial carcinoma (all stage ; Patient to receive neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy with platinum salt and gemcitabine)
  6. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (localised or metastatic ; Patients to be treated with gemcitamine alone or in combination with nab-paclitaxel)

• OMS ≤ 2

• Affiliation with a French social security scheme or beneficiary of such a scheme.

• Signed informed consent indicating that the patient has understood the purpose and procedures of the study and agrees to participate in the study and to abide by the study requirements and restrictions

Exclusion criteria

• Patients unable to collect / send stools for medical, geographical, social or psychological reasons.
• Patients who have already received chemotherapy/radiochemotherapy.
• Use of anti-infectives for systemic use within 6 months prior to the first sampling, or any other concomitant disease/condition that may influence stool analysis.
• Pregnant women and nursing mothers.
• Persons deprived of their liberty by judicial or administrative decision; persons under compulsory psychiatric care; persons admitted to a health or social institution for purposes other than research.
• Adults subject to a legal protection measure - safeguard of justice, guardianship or curatorship - or unable to express their consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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260 participants in 1 patient group

All cohorts

Experimental group

Description:

For each cohort : * Collect of stool samples (cycle 1 and cycle 3) * Collect of blood samples (5 x 6 mL EDTA tubes) =\> Cycle 1 and Cycle 3

Treatment:

Other: Mandatory biological samples (blood and sell)