Clinical trial · Observational
Clinical Application of Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) in Patients With Late-stage Breast Cancer
Clinical Application of Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) to Monitor the Molecular Tumor Burden in Patients With Late-stage Breast Cancer
NCT05079074CI-TRIAL-00059236ACTDNAcompletedClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- 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)
This is a retrospective, observational, multi-center clinical study of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) application in late-stage breast cancers.
Conditions
Conditions (3)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Circulating Tumor DNA | Breast Neoplasm | PROBABILISTIC | 0.70 |
| Gene Abnormality | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Metastatic Breast Cancer | Malignant Breast Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.78 |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| ctDNA testing | Diagnostic Test | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- label
- Patients with late-stage metastatic breast cancers.
- description
- This cohort included patients with late-stage metastatic breast cancers and their disease progressed after at least two-line treatment.
- interventionNames
- Diagnostic Test: ctDNA testing
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- ctDNA change index
- timeFrame
- From the date of recruitment until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 12 months.
- description
- The dynamic change of the frequency spectrum of ctDNA mutation in plasma.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Female
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 70 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Recent progression of TNBC after multiple lines of chemotherapy or of HR+ or HER2+ MBC after multiple lines of endocrine or targeted therapy; * No available recommendation for the next treatment regimen; * An Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 2; * An updated, available pathological HR/HER2 status for metastasis; * According to RECIST 1.1 standard, there should be at least one measurable target lesion; * The expected survival time is \> 3 months; * Those aged 18-70 years old; * Liver and kidney function and blood routine test meet the following conditions: Neutrophil \> 2.0g/l, Hb \> 9g / L, PLT \> 100g / L; ALT and AST \< 2.5ULN; TBIL \< 1.5ULN; Cr \< 1.0ULN * Signing informed consent; * Those willing to accept polygenic testing. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with multiple primary tumors; * Those who are unable to obtain blood samples; * Those with a history of immunodeficiency or organ transplantation; * Those with abnormal cardiac function or previous history of myocardial infarction or serious arrhythmia; * The researchers think it is not suitable to participate in this experiment.
References
Publications (9)
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- BACKGROUNDYates LR, Gerstung M, Knappskog S, Desmedt C, Gundem G, Van Loo P, Aas T, Alexandrov LB, Larsimont D, Davies H, Li Y, Ju YS, Ramakrishna M, Haugland HK, Lilleng PK, Nik-Zainal S, McLaren S, Butler A, Martin S, Glodzik D, Menzies A, Raine K, Hinton J, Jones D, Mudie LJ, Jiang B, Vincent D, Greene-Colozzi A, Adnet PY, Fatima A, Maetens M, Ignatiadis M, Stratton MR, Sotiriou C, Richardson AL, Lonning PE, Wedge DC, Campbell PJ. Subclonal diversification of primary breast cancer revealed by multiregion sequencing. Nat Med. 2015 Jul;21(7):751-9. doi: 10.1038/nm.3886. Epub 2015 Jun 22.