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A Prospective Study of Liquid Biopsy for Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection

A Prospective Study of Liquid Biopsy for Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection

Recruiting
40-75 years
All
Phase N/A

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Overview

This study is a multi-center, observational study aiming at developing a machine learning-based early detection model using prospectively collected liquid biopsy samples from clinically-annotated individuals.

Description

Peripheral blood samples from participants with new diagnosis of pancreatic cancers will be collected to characterize the cancer-specific circulating signals by sequencing cell free DNA. A noninvasive test integrating machine learning algorithm will be trained and validated through a two-stage approach in recruited well-classified individuals, along with non-cancers without clinical diagnosis of cancer after routine medical screening. The performance of liquid biospy assays discovering cancer from non-cancer will be evaluated in participants with benign disease as well as average risk individuals.

Eligibility

Cancer Arm

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 40-75 years old
  • Clinically and/or pathologically diagnosed pancreatic cancer
  • No prior or undergoing any systemic or local antitumor therapy, including but not limited to surgical resection, radiochemotherapy, endocrinotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, interventional therapy, etc.
  • Able to provide a written informed consent and willing to comply with all part of the protocol procedures.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnancy or lactating women
  • Known prior or current diagnosis of other types of malignancies comorbidities
  • Severe acute infection (e.g. severe or critical COVID-19, sepsis, etc.) or febrile illness (body temperature of ≥ 38.0 °C) within 14 days prior to blood draw
  • Recipients of organ transplant or prior bone marrow transplant or stem cell transplant
  • Recipients of blood transfusion within 30 days prior to study blood draw
  • Recipients of therapy in past 14 days prior to blood draw, including oral or IV antibiotics, glucocorticoid, azacitidine, decitabine, procainamine, hydrazine, arsenic trioxide
  • Other conditions that the investigators considered are not suitable for the enrollment

Benign Disease Arm

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 40-75 years old
  • Clinically and/or pathologically diagnosed pancreatic non-malignant disease (pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia, pancreatic cyst and chronic pancreatitis)
  • No prior or undergoing any systemic or local antitumor therapy, including but not limited to surgical resection, radiochemotherapy, endocrinotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, interventional therapy, etc.
  • Able to provide a written informed consent and willing to comply with all part of the protocol procedures

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnancy or lactating women
  • Known prior or current diagnosis of other types of malignancies comorbidities
  • Severe acute infection (e.g. severe or critical COVID-19, sepsis, etc.) or febrile illness (body temperature of ≥ 38.0 °C) within 14 days prior to blood draw
  • Recipients of organ transplant or prior bone marrow transplant or stem cell transplant
  • Recipients of blood transfusion within 30 days prior to study blood draw
  • Recipients of therapy in past 14 days prior to blood draw, including oral or IV antibiotics, glucocorticoid, azacitidine, decitabine, procainamine, hydrazine, arsenic trioxide
  • Other conditions that the investigators considered are not suitable for the enrollment

Study details
    Pancreatic Cancer

NCT06166147

Fudan University

15 October 2025

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