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Status unknownNCT03947736Updated May 14, 2019

Dynamic Monitoring of HER2 and ctDNA Specific Mutations in Patients With Recurrent or Metastatic Breast Cancer by Digital PCR

An observational study in Recurrent or Metastatic Breast Cancer, sponsored by Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to female participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-05-14.

Sponsored by Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences · Observational

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Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
200
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
Female
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Study summary

This was a prospective, single-center clinical study. The study was designed to investigate the relationship between plasma HER2 amplification or specific mutations abundance and clinical response in patients with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer.

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Patients were divided into two groups according to ctDNA HER2 amplification status by dPCR method. Group A consisted of patients with positive HER2 amplification at the time of enrollment. Plasma HER2 amplification status was measured by dPCR during dynamic monitoring. GroupB consists of patients with negative HER2 amplification when enrolled. Plasma samples were collected before treatment and breast cancer hotspot mutations were detected with NGS, According to the NGS test results, patient's specific mutations were analyzed and selected, which and plasma HER2 amplification status were measured by dPCR during dynamic monitoring.

The study was designed to investigate the relationship between plasma HER2 amplification or specific mutations abundance and imaging assessment in patients with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer. And also to investigate the proportion of predicting in advance the treatment efficacy of recurrent or metastatic breast cancer by plasma HER2 ctDNA, as well as the median time difference between predicted clinical efficacy by changes in abundance of plasma HER2 amplification specific mutations and medical imaging evaluation in patients.

The study only focus on ctDNA detection and does not involve any interventions.

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Conditions studied

  • Recurrent or Metastatic Breast Cancer
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In context

Breast Neoplasms

12,544 studies on the registry are indexed under Breast Neoplasms; 2,892 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 200 is close to the median of 184 across 2,642 observational studies indexed under Breast Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences is the lead sponsor of 235 studies on the registry; 19 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

patients with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer

Inclusion criteria

  1. Confirmed by pathology and/or histology/cytology as breast cancer;
  2. Patients with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer who are 18 to 75 years old, not limited to the first relapse or metastasis;
  3. There are evaluable tumor lesions;
  4. Physical strength: ECOG score 0-1;
  5. The expected survival period is more than 3 months;
  6. Agree to be collected tissue specimen;
  7. The patient has no major organ dysfunction, agrees and can implement a treatment plan based on the patient's condition.
  8. Voluntary enrollment, good compliance, can be followed up and observed.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Severe vital organs (heart, liver, kidney) dysfunction; clinically significant heart disease, classified by New York Heart Association (NYHA) as grade III-IV heart failure or more severe congestive heart failure or severe Arrhythmia requiring drug intervention; uncontrolled angina, uncontrolled arrhythmia or uncontrollable hypertension, electrocardiogram (ECG)-confirmed myocardial infarction within 6 months;
  2. Have a history of organ transplantation, splenectomy;
  3. Patients with other malignancies, except cured non-melanoma skin cancer, cervical carcinoma in situ, or other tumors that have been cured for at least 5 years;
  4. Moderate or severe renal impairment [creatinine clearance equal to or lower than 50ml/min (calculated according to Cockroft and Gault equations)], or serum creatinine > normal upper limit (ULN); pulmonary function test FEV1 \< 50% of estimated value;
  5. Parallel surgical treatment of other diseases is required;
  6. Patients who are pregnant or breast-feeding (women of childbearing age need to be examined for pregnancy); women of childbearing age must take contraceptive measures that the investigator considers effective;
  7. Patients with or showing signs of disseminated spongiform encephalopathy or family members have the disease;
  8. In the active period of other acute infectious diseases or chronic infectious diseases;
  9. Have uncontrolled epilepsy, central nervous system disease or a history of mental disorders;
  10. People with disabilities or with no legal capacity or legal capacity is limited;
  11. Those who received a research medication or formulation/treatment (ie, participated in other trials) within 4 weeks prior to enrollment;
  12. Other situations when the investigators believe that patients should not participate in this trial.

Quitting criteria:

  1. The patient suffers from other diseases and needs to be immediately taken to other therapists, and is no longer suitable for sampling test;
  2. Diagnosis of encephalitis and other inflammatory neuropathies;
  3. After the enrollment, it is clearly determined that the subject does not meet the requirements of the subject;
  4. The investigator believes that the withdrawal of the trial is in the best interest of the subject;
  5. Pregnancy;
  6. Poor compliance, two consecutive failures to accept testing as planned;
  7. The patient him/herself or the researcher believes that it is medically required to be withdrawn from the study.
  8. For subjects who discontinued the study early, the reason for the early withdrawal should be recorded, and the time of the last visit should be recorded, and the inspection items at the time of early termination of the study should be completed in the last visit as much as possible.
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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
200 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No

Groups and cohorts

  • patients with positive HER2 amplification

    Diagnostic Test: cfDNA was detected by dPCR

  • patients with negative HER2 amplification

    Diagnostic Test: cfDNA was detected by dPCR

Interventions

  • Diagnostic testcfDNA was detected by dPCR

    Without drug intervention, the patient's peripheral blood was collected and cfDNA was extracted for digital PCR detection.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. The study was designed to investigate the relationship between plasma HER2 amplification or specific mutations abundance and imaging assessment in patients with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer.

    Time frame: 2020-12-31

  2. The study was designed to investigate the proportion of predicting in advance the treatment efficacy of recurrent or metastatic breast cancer by plasma HER2 ctDNA.

    Time frame: 2020-12-31

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 14, 2019, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03947736
Lead sponsor
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Collaborators
Questgenomics
Responsible party
Peng Yuan (Principal Investigator, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences) — Principal investigator
First posted
May 13, 2019
Start date
Sep 17, 2018
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2020 (estimated)
Completion
Jun 2021 (estimated)
Last update
May 14, 2019

Study contacts

peng yuan, Prof
Contact
yuanpeng01@hotmail.com
13501270834
YiRan Si, Dr.
Contact
15122649164@163.com
18810844632
Dr. yuan, Prof
study director · Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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