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Brain Slice Explants to Predict Drug Response in Brain Tumors

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT05978557

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Official title

A Feasibility Study to Determine if a Novel Patient-derived Explant Platform Can Produce Drug Sensitivity Scores Within a Clinically Relevant Time Frame in Patients With CNS Tumors

Brief summary

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This biospecimen collection study will evaluate the feasibility of engrafting and testing resected Central nervous system (CNS) tumors tumor tissue ex vivo to estimate drug response, in pediatric and adult subjects. CNS tumors display remarkable heterogeneity and unfortunately there are no reliable precision oncology platforms that can identify the most effective therapy for each patient. Recent work has demonstrated the success of functional precision oncology platforms using patient-derived explant (PDE) at predicting drug response in various cancers. Since PDEs maintain important aspects of tumor heterogeneity they may prove effective as functional models for CNS tumors. The purpose of this study is to explore the feasibility of using a novel PDE platform to generate drug sensitivity scores from patients with central nervous system tumors in Pediatric and adult subjects having low- or high-grade CNS tumors resected. The secondary objective is to estimate the proportion of successfully scaled PDEs generated per given tumor size.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT05978557
Recruitment status
Recruiting
Study type
Observational
Phase
Not listed
Enrollment
50 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Other

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
Not listed
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date
Jul 27, 2023 (Actual)
Primary completion
Mar 1, 2028 (Estimated)
Completion
Mar 1, 2028 (Estimated)
Last update posted
Sep 4, 2026

2023 – 2028

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Chapel Hill North Carolina 27516 Recruiting

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