Blood test may predict lung cancer spread in early stages
NCT ID NCT00818558
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study looked at whether a blood test called ISET can find circulating tumor cells in people with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer. Researchers checked blood samples from 256 patients before surgery to see if these cells were linked to cancer stage, type, and survival. The goal was to learn if this test could help predict recurrence or spread, not to treat the disease.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could help doctors better predict lung cancer recurrence or spread using a simple blood test.
- What could go wrong
- This is an observational study, not a treatment trial. It may not lead to any direct benefit for patients, and results may not change current care.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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256 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Nov 2008
- Finished
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Oct 2012
- 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.
- Ages
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18 to 80 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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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: For the patients: * patient having been operated for a strong suspicion or a suspicion of a malignant tumoral hurt corresponding to a primitive carcinoma not in small cell of the lung For the control subjects: * Tabagical patients (between 10 and 30 packages years) * unhurt of any malignant or mild tumoral pathology or patients that must benefit from a surgical operation for an extract of a hurt lung parenchymateuse for a not tumoral hurt Exclusion Criteria: * Patient with histories of cancer or the other synchronous cancer * Patient with carcinomas with small cells, bronchiolo-alveolar carcinomas, the other types of tumors (lymphomes, sarcomas, etc.). * Patient with neoadditives treatments * Patient according to treatments additives others than protocols codified (in particular, platinum navelbine or gemcitabine platinum) for stages II
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Pr Paul HOFMAN
Nice, France
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