TRAcking Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Evolution Through Therapy (Rx)

NCT01888601 | Active Not Recruiting DMC

• 1 other identifier: UCL/12/0279
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 814
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 18

Brief Summary

To study the NSCLC evolutionary genomic landscape between primary and metastatic sites and the dynamics of intratumour heterogeneity over time combined with detailed clinical, histopathological and cancer phenotypic annotation for each patient, in order to significantly improve the outcomes of NSCLC patients (e.g. reduce their chance of recurrence and improve survival).

Conditions

Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Intratumour heterogeneity

  • Define the relationship between intratumour heterogeneity and clinical outcome following surgery and adjuvant therapy (including relationships between intratumour heterogeneity and clinical disease stage and histological subtypes of NSCLC).

  Year 5

Study Arms (1)

NSCLC eligible for primary surgery

NSCLC eligible for primary surgery

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Stage I-IIIA NSCLC eligible for primary surgery

You may qualify if:

• Written Informed consent
• Patients ≥18 years of age, with early stage IIA-IIIB disease (according to TNM 8th edition) who are eligible for primary surgery. Patients with a radiological staging of IB (N0) who could be upstaged to IIA-IIIB following surgery (due to the presence of possible nodal involvement on the pre-operative scan) may also be included, but will be withdrawn if post-surgical staging remains IB.
• Histopathologically confirmed NSCLC, or a strong suspicion of cancer on lung imaging necessitating surgery (e.g. diagnosis determined from frozen section in theatre)
• Primary surgery in keeping with NICE guidelines planned (see section 9.3)
• Agreement to be followed up at a TRACERx site
• Performance status 0 or 1
• Minimum tumour diameter at least 15mm to allow for sampling of at least two tumour regions (if 15mm, a high likelihood of nodal involvement on pre-operative imaging required to meet eligibility according to stage, i.e. T1N1-3)

You may not qualify if:

• Any other\* malignancy diagnosed or relapsed at any time, which is currently being treated (including by hormonal therapy).
• Any other\* current malignancy or malignancy diagnosed or relapsed within the past 3 years\*\*.
• \*Exceptions are: non-melanomatous skin cancer, stage 0 melanoma in situ, and in situ cervical cancer
• \*\*An exception will be made for malignancies diagnosed or relapsed more than 2, but less than 3, years ago only if a pre-operative biopsy of the lung lesion has confirmed a diagnosis of NSCLC.
• Psychological condition that would preclude informed consent
• Treatment with neo-adjuvant therapy for current lung malignancy deemed necessary
• Post-surgery staging is not IIA-IIIB
• Known Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) or syphilis infection.
• Sufficient tissue, i.e. a minimum of two tumour regions, is unlikely to be obtained for the study based on pre-operative imaging

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University College, London: lead
• Cancer Research UK: collaborator

Study Sites (18)

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Harlow, Essex, CM20 1QX, United Kingdom

Location

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 6YD, United Kingdom

Location

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

London, Select Region, NW1 2PG, United Kingdom

Location

Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Chertsey, Surrey, KT16 0PZ, United Kingdom

Location

Grampian Health Board

Aberdeen, AB15 6RE, United Kingdom

Location

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham, B9 5SS, United Kingdom

Location

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Cardiff, CF14 4XW, United Kingdom

Location

NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Location

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Leicester, LE1 5WW, United Kingdom

Location

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Location

Barts Health NHS Trust

London, E1 1RD, United Kingdom

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North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

London, N18 1QX, United Kingdom

Location

The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, trading as Whittington Health

London, N19 5NF, United Kingdom

Location

Royal Free Hospital

London, NW3 2QG, United Kingdom

Location

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - Barnet Hospital

London, NW3 2QG, United Kingdom

Location

Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

London, SW3 6NP, United Kingdom

Location

University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust

Manchester, M23 9LT, United Kingdom

Location

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sheffield, S5 7AU, United Kingdom

Location

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• Abbosh C, Frankell AM, Harrison T, Kisistok J, Garnett A, Johnson L, Veeriah S, Moreau M, Chesh A, Chaunzwa TL, Weiss J, Schroeder MR, Ward S, Grigoriadis K, Shahpurwalla A, Litchfield K, Puttick C, Biswas D, Karasaki T, Black JRM, Martinez-Ruiz C, Bakir MA, Pich O, Watkins TBK, Lim EL, Huebner A, Moore DA, Godin-Heymann N, L'Hernault A, Bye H, Odell A, Kalavakur P, Gomes F, Patel AJ, Manzano E, Hiley CT, Carey N, Riley J, Cook DE, Hodgson D, Stetson D, Barrett JC, Kortlever RM, Evan GI, Hackshaw A, Daber RD, Shaw JA, Aerts HJWL, Licon A, Stahl J, Jamal-Hanjani M; TRACERx Consortium; Birkbak NJ, McGranahan N, Swanton C. Tracking early lung cancer metastatic dissemination in TRACERx using ctDNA. Nature. 2023 Apr;616(7957):553-562. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05776-4. Epub 2023 Apr 13.

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• Frankell AM, Dietzen M, Al Bakir M, Lim EL, Karasaki T, Ward S, Veeriah S, Colliver E, Huebner A, Bunkum A, Hill MS, Grigoriadis K, Moore DA, Black JRM, Liu WK, Thol K, Pich O, Watkins TBK, Naceur-Lombardelli C, Cook DE, Salgado R, Wilson GA, Bailey C, Angelova M, Bentham R, Martinez-Ruiz C, Abbosh C, Nicholson AG, Le Quesne J, Biswas D, Rosenthal R, Puttick C, Hessey S, Lee C, Prymas P, Toncheva A, Smith J, Xing W, Nicod J, Price G, Kerr KM, Naidu B, Middleton G, Blyth KG, Fennell DA, Forster MD, Lee SM, Falzon M, Hewish M, Shackcloth MJ, Lim E, Benafif S, Russell P, Boleti E, Krebs MG, Lester JF, Papadatos-Pastos D, Ahmad T, Thakrar RM, Lawrence D, Navani N, Janes SM, Dive C, Blackhall FH, Summers Y, Cave J, Marafioti T, Herrero J, Quezada SA, Peggs KS, Schwarz RF, Van Loo P, Miedema DM, Birkbak NJ, Hiley CT, Hackshaw A, Zaccaria S; TRACERx Consortium; Jamal-Hanjani M, McGranahan N, Swanton C. The evolution of lung cancer and impact of subclonal selection in TRACERx. Nature. 2023 Apr;616(7957):525-533. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05783-5. Epub 2023 Apr 12.

  PMID: 37046096 DERIVED

• Al Bakir M, Huebner A, Martinez-Ruiz C, Grigoriadis K, Watkins TBK, Pich O, Moore DA, Veeriah S, Ward S, Laycock J, Johnson D, Rowan A, Razaq M, Akther M, Naceur-Lombardelli C, Prymas P, Toncheva A, Hessey S, Dietzen M, Colliver E, Frankell AM, Bunkum A, Lim EL, Karasaki T, Abbosh C, Hiley CT, Hill MS, Cook DE, Wilson GA, Salgado R, Nye E, Stone RK, Fennell DA, Price G, Kerr KM, Naidu B, Middleton G, Summers Y, Lindsay CR, Blackhall FH, Cave J, Blyth KG, Nair A, Ahmed A, Taylor MN, Procter AJ, Falzon M, Lawrence D, Navani N, Thakrar RM, Janes SM, Papadatos-Pastos D, Forster MD, Lee SM, Ahmad T, Quezada SA, Peggs KS, Van Loo P, Dive C, Hackshaw A, Birkbak NJ, Zaccaria S; TRACERx Consortium; Jamal-Hanjani M, McGranahan N, Swanton C. The evolution of non-small cell lung cancer metastases in TRACERx. Nature. 2023 Apr;616(7957):534-542. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05729-x. Epub 2023 Apr 12.

  PMID: 37046095 DERIVED

• Ng KW, Boumelha J, Enfield KSS, Almagro J, Cha H, Pich O, Karasaki T, Moore DA, Salgado R, Sivakumar M, Young G, Molina-Arcas M, de Carne Trecesson S, Anastasiou P, Fendler A, Au L, Shepherd STC, Martinez-Ruiz C, Puttick C, Black JRM, Watkins TBK, Kim H, Shim S, Faulkner N, Attig J, Veeriah S, Magno N, Ward S, Frankell AM, Al Bakir M, Lim EL, Hill MS, Wilson GA, Cook DE, Birkbak NJ, Behrens A, Yousaf N, Popat S, Hackshaw A; TRACERx Consortium; CAPTURE Consortium; Hiley CT, Litchfield K, McGranahan N, Jamal-Hanjani M, Larkin J, Lee SH, Turajlic S, Swanton C, Downward J, Kassiotis G. Antibodies against endogenous retroviruses promote lung cancer immunotherapy. Nature. 2023 Apr;616(7957):563-573. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05771-9. Epub 2023 Apr 12.

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Biospecimen

Retention: SAMPLES WITH DNA

tissue, blood, plasma and serum

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Carcinoma, Bronchogenic; Bronchial Neoplasms; Lung Neoplasms; Respiratory Tract Neoplasms; Thoracic Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Neoplasms; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases

Study Officials

• Charles Swanton

  Chief Investigator

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 17, 2013
• First Posted: June 28, 2013
• Study Start: April 1, 2014
• Primary Completion (Estimated): November 1, 2035
• Study Completion (Estimated): November 1, 2035
• Last Updated: May 4, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-04

Locations

GB (18)