Pancreatic Cancer Evolution Upon Treatment

San Donato Group (GSD)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Pancreatic Cancer

Treatments: Procedure: Fine Needle Biopsy or Aspiration

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05195281

PACEUT

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project aims at evaluating the different subtypes of pancreatic cancer on EUS-tissue acquisition of pancreatic cancer patients, and their possible modifications throughout time. The study takes advantage of a systematic evaluation of pancreatic cancers through diagnostic EUS-guided fine needle biopsy (FNB) sampling of the mass performed during a restaging EUS. FNB samples represent a valuable source of cancer cells, both for the histological diagnosis and as the source of tumor macromolecules, including DNA and RNA.

Study design This is a prospective study enrolling patients with non-metastatic pancreatic cancer who already underwent diagnostic EUS with tissue acquisition and rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) by cytologist positive for pancreatic cancer, with a first sample acquired for diagnostic purposes and a second sample stored for RNA extraction acquired with the already approved protocol BIOGASTRO.

As recommended by guidelines, patients will follow the standard pathway of treatment, being sent to chemotherapy and will then undergo restaging of the lesion and re-evaluation of vascular invasion by CT and EUS. During this second session of EUS a new specimen of the tumor will be sampled for diagnostic purposes, with a second pass undergoing for RNA extraction.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥ 18 years
• Willing to sign informed consent
• Patient with CT scan or MRI or EUS defining the lesion as locally advanced
• Patient who already underwent EUS-TA for solid lesion of the pancreas positive for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC)
• Patient undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy
• Patient primarily followed at San Raffaele Hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Patients not willing to sign informed consent
• Pregnancy and breastfeeding
• Cytology positive for malignancies other than PDAC
• Patient undergoing progression at re-staging CT scan

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 1 patient group

Repetition of EUS-FNA or FNB for RNA extraction

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Fine Needle Biopsy or Aspiration