Clinical trial · Observational
Circulating Cell-free DNA as a Predictive Biomarker for Hepatocelluar Carcinoma.
Detected the Valuable Characteristic Changes Both in Circulating Cell-free DNA and Primary Tumor in the Patients With Hepatocelluar Carcinoma.
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Circulating free cell DNA (cfDNA) is extracellular fragmentation of nucleic acids that occurs both in plasma and serum. This kind of DNA which derived from the apoptotic/necrotic cells or the lysis of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) can be detectedin the patients with a variety of diseases. Emerging evidence suggests that cfDNA from patients exhibits characteristicchanges of tumors, suchas mutations, insertions/deletions, methylations,microsatellite aberrations, and copy number variations, etc. All of these reveal a visible difference between the benign conditions, and thus may be useful in the diagnosis of cancer, identification of targeted therapy, monitor responses to treatments, and early detection of relapse. The purpose for this study is to explore these characteristic changes in the patients withhepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and expect to guide targeted therapy and identify non-invasive biomarkers of cancer diagnosis and prognosis which can be easily isolated from the circulation.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hepatocellular Carcinoma | Hepatocellular Carcinoma | ONTOLOGY_EXACT | 0.98 |
Interventions
Interventions (0)
Data not yet available
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- label
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- description
- The mutation will be found in the DNA samples from the plasma and solid tumor tissues in the patients with HCC.
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- To collect the DNA samples from the plasma, blood cells and solid tumor tissues in the patients with HCC.
- timeFrame
- three months
- description
- In the first three months in this study, we will collect 5 samples from the plasma, blood cells and primary tumor lesions in the patients with HCC in three stages including preoperative, postoperative (2 weeks) and postoperative (1 month). It is better for us to find the characteristic changes when we make a detailed comparison between the samples in these period. These samples include 5ml plasma, 2ml blood cells without plasma and at least 10mg solid tumor tissues.
Secondary outcomes (4)
- measure
- Investigate the value characteristic changes from the DNA samples.
- timeFrame
- three months
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 80 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: Age≥18years and ≤80 years; Histologically and cytologically proven Hepatocellular carcinoma Child-Pugh：child A-B Adequate hematological, renal, cardiac and pulmonary functions Tumor in any segment of liver Exclusion Criteria: Uncontrolled systemic disease Reject the surgical treatment Metastatic carcinoma Child-Pugh：child C
References
Publications (3)
- BACKGROUNDChen K, Zhang H, Zhang LN, Ju SQ, Qi J, Huang DF, Li F, Wei Q, Zhang J. Value of circulating cell-free DNA in diagnosis of hepatocelluar carcinoma. World J Gastroenterol. 2013 May 28;19(20):3143-9. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v19.i20.3143. PMID 23716996
- BACKGROUNDGall TM, Frampton AE, Krell J, Habib NA, Castellano L, Stebbing J, Jiao LR. Cell-free DNA for the detection of pancreatic, liver and upper gastrointestinal cancers: has progress been made? Future Oncol. 2013 Dec;9(12):1861-9. doi: 10.2217/fon.13.152. PMID 24295416
- BACKGROUNDShen P, Wang W, Chi AK, Fan Y, Davis RW, Scharfe C. Multiplex target capture with double-stranded DNA probes. Genome Med. 2013 May 29;5(5):50. doi: 10.1186/gm454. eCollection 2013. PMID 23718862