Blood test may spot colorectal cancer early
NCT ID NCT05577143
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study is testing whether two substances in the blood, called TFPI-1 and TFPI-2, can tell the difference between people who have colorectal cancer and those who don't. About 303 adults aged 50 to 75 will take part, including some with suspected cancer and some without symptoms. If successful, this could lead to a simple blood test to help catch colorectal cancer earlier.
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Study facts
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- Participants
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About 303 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Mar 2023
- Expected to finish
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Mar 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Patients followed up for colonoscopy in the gastroenterology and digestive surgery departments of 5 regional hospitals in northern France
- Ages
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18 to 75 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients with suspected colorectal cancer for which colonoscopy is indicated. * Patients between 50 and 75 years old, asymptomatic from the digestive point of view (for example referred for colonoscopy as part of a pre-operative check-up of an inguinal hernia or 3 months after an episode of complicated sigmoiditis), for whom a follow-up colonoscopy is indicated. Note. * If the post-inclusion colonoscopy is normal, no biopsy will be performed and patients will be assigned to the control group. * If the colonoscopy performed after inclusion is abnormal (presence of at least one mucosal lesion), patients will be assigned to the "colorectal cancer" group or to the "polyps" group depending on the results of the anatomopathological analysis of the lesion(s) Exclusion Criteria: * All clinical situations outside of CRC that could increase TFPI-1 or 2 blood levels: acute coronary syndrome (unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction), severe sepsis, decompensated cirrhosis, pregnancy, chronic inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's or ulcerative colitis), colitis or radiation rectitis. * Endoscopic polypectomy without prior histological confirmation. * Emergency (occlusion or peritonitis) * Minor patients. * Persons of full age under legal protection or unable to express their consent * Persons not affiliated to a social security system or beneficiaries of such a system. * Pregnant women, women in labor or nursing mothers.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Hôpital HURIEZ - Chirurgie digestive et transplantation
RECRUITINGLille, France
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