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Evaluation of the Feasibility and Clinical Relevance of Liquid Biopsy in Patients With Suspicious Metastatic Lung Cancer (LIBELULE)

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Léon Bérard Center

Status

Completed

Conditions

Metastatic Lung Cancer

Treatments

Diagnostic Test: InvisionFirst® molecular panel

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03721120
ET18-086 LIBELULE

Details and patient eligibility

About

Lung cancer is diagnosed at metastatic stage in 60% of the cases. For these patients, first-line treatment is based on histology and molecular characterization of non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Thus, quality and quantity of tumor tissue are crucial to determine the appropriate treatment (targeted therapies, chemotherapy and immunotherapy).

However, in routine practice, tissue quality and quantity can be limited (25%), resulting in the need for tumor rebiopsy for molecular analysis. Therefore, lung cancer patients often experience substantial delays before treatment initiation that may be associated with worse patient experience of subsequent cancer care and poorer clinical outcomes.

"Liquid biopsies" (LB) are used to detect genomic alterations in cell-free circulating DNA (cfDNA). Since very recently, they are routinely used in reference centers for the detection of EGFR-mutations when tissue is not sufficient for molecular characterization. Importantly, the feasibility and clinical relevance of systematic liquid biopsies in routine practice has never been evaluated in patients with suspicious advanced lung cancer.

Investigators hypothesize that using systematic LB in patients with clinical suspicion of metastatic lung cancer may reduce time-to-treatment initiation and avoid tissue rebiopsy.

Investigators performed a retrospective study including 250 NSCLC patients treated in a tertiary Cancer Center and in the University Hospital of Lyon, France. The mean time-to-appropriate frontline treatment initiation (TTI) was 42+/-22.5 days. With the use of LB at the time of first consultation, the investigators believe it is possible to reduce the mean TTI down to 33 days (21% reduction in TTI) in the overall population with suspicious metastatic lung cancer, including a 50% and 40% reduction in TTI for EGFR/ALK/ROS1/BRAF V600E subgroups and KRAS/LKB1/ERBB2/c-MET/BRAF non V600E subgroups, respectively.

Investigators therefore designed a "real-life" randomized study to evaluate the feasibility and clinical relevance of LB to decrease the TTI, which may in turn improve patients' outcome. Genomic analyses of circulating cfDNA will be performed using a robust and highly sensitive technology (InVision®), that profiles the presence of genomic aberrations in a panel of 35 genes including mutations, insertion/deletions and rearrangements, including all actionable alterations required to initiate the appropriate first-line therapy (EGFR-, ALK-, ROS1 and BRAF V600E).

Enrollment

319 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Age ≥ 18 years;
  • Patients with clinico-radiological suspicious presentation of stage IV lung cancer;
  • No prior chemotherapy for locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC;
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status 0-2 (Appendix 2);
  • Life expectancy > 12 weeks;
  • No contraindication to systemic lung cancer treatment;
  • Covered by a medical insurance;
  • Signed informed consent prior to any study-specific procedure;
  • No prior biopsy or cytology for lung cancer diagnosis.

Exclusion criteria

  • Pregnant or breastfeeding women;
  • Patient concurrently using other approved or investigational antineoplastic agents;
  • Major concurrent disease affecting cardiovascular system, liver, kidneys, hematopoietic system or else considered as clinically important by the investigator and that could be incompatible with patient's participation in this trial or would likely interfere with study procedures or results;
  • Prior history of malignancies other than study disease (except for basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or carcinoma in situ of the cervix) unless the patient has been free of the disease for at least 3 years;
  • Patient requiring tutorship or curatorship.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Diagnostic

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

319 participants in 2 patient groups

Liquid biopsy
Experimental group
Description:
Liquid biopsy will be performed at the first visit using InVisionFirst®. Treatment will be determined by (i) genomic characterization in plasma for patients with druggable alteration in first-line, (ii) after pathology results (including assessment of PD-L1 level of expression by immunohistochemistry) for patients with an informative molecular characterization on plasma and no druggable alteration in first-line and (iii) after pathology results and tissue molecular characterization for the remaining patients.
Treatment:
Diagnostic Test: InvisionFirst® molecular panel
Cytological or histological sampling
No Intervention group
Description:
During the first visit, cytological or histological sampling will be planned and treatment will be initiated according to European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) recommendations; in case of a tissue sample inadequate for genomic characterization, physicians may resort to liquid biopsy according to their usual practice and available technology.

Trial contacts and locations

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