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RecruitingNCT05099068PLANETUpdated Jul 5, 2022

Profiling Program of Cancer Patients With Sequential Tumor and Liquid Biopsies (PLANET)

An interventional study of Blood and tumor samples in Advanced / Metastic Solid Tumors, Glioblastoma and Chronic Leukemia Lymphocytic, sponsored by Centre Leon Berard. Recruiting at 2 sites in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-07-05.

Sponsored by Centre Leon Berard · Not applicable, Interventional, and Diagnostic

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Sep 2025, 1 year ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Nov 2021; still recruiting 4 years 10 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
500
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The proposal is to conduct a prospective, multi-cohort study aiming to decipher molecular profiles/biological characteristics of advanced cancer patients during the course of their disease with longitudinal and sequential analyses of tumor and liquid biopsies. This approach will allow i) to develop a model in order to predict tumor response / resistance in real life conditions and to better understand adaptive mechanisms and ii) to potentially propose therapeutic options to enrolled patients following the review of the biological/molecular data generated during this study and during a Molecular Tumor Board in case of disease progression. This study will include 12 cohorts according to tumor type and standard treatment received (See Inclusion criteria I1). Patient will be enrolled before the initiation of standard anti-cancer treatment.

Read the detailed description

Most of the molecular screening programs have allowed to successfully guide patients to personalized therapy only for a minority of patients (10-20%) and few patients have actually benefit from these programs with low objective response under personalized therapy.

During the course of disease and / or of treatment, tumors become more heterogeneous and include a collection of cells harboring distinct molecular signatures with differential levels of sensitivity to treatment. Assessment of tumor heterogeneity and plasticity are essential for the development of effective therapies. Longitudinal analysis of biopsy samples is of considerable interest to assess the complex clonal architecture of cancers and potentially adapt cancer treatment to tumor profile/characteristics overtime. In this context, profiling of circulating tumor DNA using non-invasive liquid biopsies is also an interesting approach to assess cancer evolution by showing the contribution of clonal heterogeneity to chemotherapy resistance and metastasis in high-risk patients.

The proposal is to conduct a prospective, multi-cohort study aiming to decipher molecular profiles/biological characteristics of advanced cancer patients during the course of their disease with longitudinal and sequential analyses of tumor and liquid biopsies. This approach will allow i) to develop a model in order to predict tumor response / resistance in real life conditions and to better understand adaptive mechanisms and ii) to potentially propose therapeutic options to enrolled patients following the review of the biological/molecular data generated during this study and during a Molecular Tumor Board in case of disease progression. This study will include 12 cohorts according to tumor type and standard treatment received (See Inclusion criteria I1). Patient will be enrolled before the initiation of standard anti-cancer treatment.

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Conditions studied

  • Advanced / Metastic Solid Tumors
  • Glioblastoma
  • Chronic Leukemia Lymphocytic

Keywords

  • Molecular Screening
  • Genomic profiles
  • Transcriptomic profiles
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In context

Glioblastoma

1,920 studies on the registry are indexed under Glioblastoma; 450 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 500 is above the median of 36 across 1,618 interventional studies indexed under Glioblastoma.

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Lead sponsor

Centre Leon Berard is the lead sponsor of 206 studies on the registry; 61 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

I1. Adult male or female patient with confirmed diagnosis of advanced/metastatic cancer to be treated with standard anti-cancer treatment according to :

  • For metastatic Small cell lung cancer (SLCC) : treatment by Immunotherapy ± chemotherapy
  • For Recurrent/Metastatic Head and Neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) : treatment by Immunotherapy (all lines) ± chemotherapy if in agreement with SmPC
  • For Metastatic Urothelial carcinoma : treatment by 1st line chemotherapy with avelumab as maintenance treatment (patients will be enrolled following 4 to 6 cycles of CT, only patient initiating avelumab maintenance are eligible (i.e. patients with SD or PR after CT)
  • For MSI-High, any tumor types : treatment by Immunotherapy
  • For HPV-related cancers, any tumor types : treatment by Immunotherapy
  • Metastatic GIST : treatment by Imatinib
  • BRAF- V600E tumors (lung and thyroid cancer) : treatment by Dabrafenib + trametinib
  • BRAF- mutated tumors (CRC, lung and thyroid cancer) :

Lung (V600E only) and thyroid (all BRAF mutation with known sensitivity to Dabrafenib): treatment by Dabrafenib + trametinib CRC (BRAF V600E): treatment by Encorafenib + cetuximab

  • All solid tumor types with ret fusion / mutation : treatment by Selpercatinib
  • Metastatic Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) : treatment by 1st line chemotherapy
  • Glioblastoma : treatment by Radiochemotherapy
  • Advanced high grade epithelial ovarian cancer : treatment by 1st line Chemotherapy
  • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) in the relapsed setting : treatment by Bruton Kinase Inhibitors

I2. All solid tumor cohorts: Availability of an archival representative formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tumor sample [...]

I3. All solid tumor cohorts: Disease evaluable as per RECIST V1.1

I4. All solid tumor cohorts excluding Glioblastoma: Tumor lesion visible by medical imaging and accessible to repeatable percutaneous or endoscopic mandatory de novo tumor sampling [...]

I5. Performance status (PS) ECOG 0 or 1.

I6. Patient should understand, sign, and date the written ICF prior to any protocol-specific procedures performed. Patient should be able and willing to comply with study visits and procedures including sequential tumor biopsies as per protocol.

I7. Patient must be covered by a medical insurance.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

NI1. All solid tumor cohorts - Patient with non-acceptable tumor sample at screening.

NI2. Any condition contraindicated with blood/tumor sampling procedures required by the protocol.

NI3. Any psychological, familial, geographic or social situation, according to the judgment of investigator, potentially preventing the provision of informed consent or compliance to study procedure.

NI4. Pregnant or breast-feeding woman.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Diagnostic
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
500 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    IMMUNOTHERAPY COHORTS

    This cohort include following cancers treated with immunotherapy : metastatic Small cell lung cancer (SLCC); recurrent/Metastatic Head and Neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC); MSI-High, any tumor types and HPV-related cancers,any tumor types

    Biological: Blood and tumor samples

  • Experimental
    TARGETED THERAPIES COHORTS

    This cohort include following cancers treated with targeted therapies : Metastatic GIST; BRAF-mutated tumors (CRC (BRAF V600E), lung (V600 only) and thyroid (all BRAF mutation with known sensitivity to Dabrafenib) cancer); All solid tumor types with RET fusion / mutation and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) in the relapsed setting.

    Biological: Blood and tumor samples

  • Experimental
    CHEMOTHERAPY COHORTS

    This cohort include following cancers treated with chemotherapies : metastatic Small cell lung cancer (SLCC); recurrent/Metastatic Head and Neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC); Metastatic Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC); Glioblastoma; Advanced high grade epithelial ovarian cancer

    Biological: Blood and tumor samples

Interventions

  • BiologicalBlood and tumor samples

    Longitudinal molecular profiling of tumor and liquid biopsies.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of patients with meaningful molecular genetic alterations on tumor sample

    Identification of molecular genetic alterations based on molecular characterisation (WES and RNASeq) of tumor at diagnosis, then under standard anti-cancer treatment : treatment start, 1st radiological evaluation and disease progression

    Time frame: At the end of study (4 years)

  2. Number of patients with meaningful molecular genetic alterations on circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA)

    Identification of molecular genetic alterations based on molecular characterisation (WES and RNASeq) of ctDNA under standard anti-cancer treatment : treatment start, each radiological evaluation and disease progression

    Time frame: At the end of study (4 years)

  3. Number of patients with meaningful immunological features

    Identification and characterisation of the tumor microenvironment and the host's immunological profile, at diagnosis and during patient treatment

    Time frame: At the end of study (4 years)

  4. Objective Response Rate (ORR) as per RECIST V1.1 and according to central review

    For solid tumors excluding glioblastoma only

    Time frame: 3 months

  5. Progression-Free Survival (PFS)

    For glioblastoma only

    Time frame: 6 months

  6. Objective Response Rate (ORR) according to iwCLL criteria

    For chronic lymphocytic leukemia

    Time frame: 6 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Correlation between disease evolution and molecular and/or immunological biomarkers

    To identify potential prognostic and predictive biomarkers on tumor samples collected during patient's treatment and follow-up detected by molecular biology techniques, and on immunological findings

    Time frame: Time Frame: up to 4 years

  2. Evaluation of circulating-tumor DNA (ctDNA; liquid biopsy) yields similar genomic profile as the tumor sample.

    To identify potential prognostic and predictive biomarkers based on changes on circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA), detected by molecular biology techniques

    Time frame: 48 months

  3. Number of patients with recommended therapy according to biological data (liquid versus tumor biopsy)

    Time frame: 48 months

  4. Tumor characteristics using a radiomic approach and detailed analyses of imaging.

    Time frame: 48 months

  5. FACT-G questionnaire

    To evaluate the quality of life and emotional distress anxiety/depression over time of patients

    Time frame: 48 months

  6. HADS questionnaire

    To evaluate the quality of life and emotional distress anxiety/depression over time of patients

    Time frame: 48 months

  7. PRO questionnaire

    To evaluate the quality of life and emotional distress anxiety/depression over time of patients

    Time frame: 48 months

  8. Correlation between patient's understanding and experiences of precision medicine clinical trial

    Measured by thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews: themes and sub-themes will be analyzed in order to develop items for the construction and validation of a quantitative questionnaire.

    Time frame: 48 months

  9. Correlation between socio-spatial inequalities in access to the PLANET program and the impact on the quality of life of patients

    Questionnaire

    Time frame: 48 months

  10. TKI pharmacokinetics

    Plasma concentrations of TKI

    Time frame: 48 months

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Study locations

1 of 2 sites recruiting
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 5, 2022, 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
NCT05099068
Lead sponsor
Centre Leon Berard
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Oct 29, 2021
Start date
Nov 16, 2021
Primary completion
Sep 15, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 15, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 5, 2022

Study contacts

Pierre SAINTIGNY, MD, PhD
Contact
Pierre.saintigny@lyon.unicancer.fr
04 69 85 60 05
Pierre SAINTIGNY, MD, PhD
principal investigator · Centre Leon Berard

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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