Metabolic Changes as a Diagnostic Indicator for Cancer

Hasselt University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Lung Cancer

Treatments: Other: Venous blood sample

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02362776

09/046U

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to determine whether metabolic changes occur in blood plasma of cancer patients, and whether these changes can be used as a biomarker to detect cancer. These analyses will be done by means of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

Enrollment: 426 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of breast or lung cancer (new lesion)

Exclusion criteria

• Not fasted for at least 6 hours
• Plasma glucose concentration ≥ 200 mg/dl
• Intake of medication at the day of investigation
• History/treatment of cancer in the previous 5 years

Trial design

426 participants in 3 patient groups

breast cancer patients

Treatment:

Other: Venous blood sample

lung cancer patients

Treatment:

Other: Venous blood sample

control subjects

Treatment:

Other: Venous blood sample