Personalized cancer test could match patients to best drugs
NCT ID NCT07171554
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study is testing a new diagnostic test called µCAN that takes a small sample of a patient's tumor and grows it in the lab. The test then screens many drugs to see which ones kill the cancer cells best. The goal is to help doctors choose the right treatment for each person with metastatic colorectal cancer. The study will enroll 75 patients in Norway and Sweden to see if the test can produce a useful report within 8 weeks.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- µCAN drug screen test (diagnostic test using patient-derived tumoroids)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this test could help doctors choose the most effective drugs for each patient with metastatic colorectal cancer, potentially improving treatment outcomes and reducing side effects.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early-stage study with only 75 participants, focused on whether the test can produce a usable report, not yet on whether it improves survival. The test may not work for all patients or may not lead to better outcomes.
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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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About 75 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2025
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2029
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
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 years and older
- 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: * Willing and able to give written informed consent (for each part of the study) for participation in the clinical performance study. * Male or female patients, ≥18 years of age, with Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-1, who have metastatic lesions in the liver or peritoneum (or lymph nodes) that are radiologically assessable and can be biopsied, and who have recently failed 1st line systemic therapy (2nd line for patients with three standard therapy lines) for unresectable metastatic disease and will shortly commence a new line of standard therapy. * Patient is eligible for another line of tumour directed therapy on failure of the SoC. * Patient has the following laboratory values, as measured in serum/plasma within 14 days prior to signing of informed consent for participation in Part A and B, respectively, indicative of adequate organ function: * Haemoglobin at least 10.0 g/dL. * Neutrophils at least 1.5 x109/L (without current use of colony-stimulating factors). * Platelets at least 100 x109/L. * AST/ALT no higher than 2xULN when patient does not have metastatic disease in the liver, or no higher than 5xULN when patient has metastatic disease in the liver. * Bilirubin no higher than 1.5xULN when patient does not have metastatic disease in the liver, or no higher than 2xULN when patient has metastatic disease in the liver. * Albumin no lower than 30 g/L. * INR within normal level. * Creatinine no higher than 1.5xULN. * For Part A: the treating physician should follow contraceptive requirements described in the SmPC of respective treatment. * For Part B: women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must practice abstinence from heterosexual intercourse (only allowed when this is the preferred and usual lifestyle of the patient) or must agree to use a highly effective method of contraception with a failure rate of \<1 % to prevent pregnancy from at least 2 weeks prior to the screening visit of Part B to 4 weeks after the last administration of IMP in Part B. In addition, any male partner of a female participant must, unless he has undergone vasectomy, agree to use a condom from the screening visit of Part B until 4 weeks after the last administration of IMP in Part B. The following are considered highly effective methods of contraception: * combined (oestrogen and progestogen containing) hormonal contraception associated with inhibition of ovulation (oral, intravaginal, transdermal), * progestogen-only hormonal contraception associated with inhibition of ovulation (oral, injectable, implantable), * intrauterine device \[IUD\]or intrauterine hormone-releasing system \[IUS\]) WOCBP must refrain from donating eggs from the first IMP administration until 3 months after the last IMP administration. WOCBP with an exclusive male partner who has undergone vasectomy may chose not to use contraceptives. Women of non-childbearing potential are pre-menopausal females who have undergone any of the following surgical procedures; hysterectomy, bilateral salpingectomy or bilateral oophorectomy, or who are post-menopausal defined as 12 months of amenorrhea (in questionable cases a blood sample with detection of follicle stimulating hormone \[FSH\] \>25 IU/L is confirmatory). Male participants must be willing to use condom or be vasectomised or practice sexual abstinence from heterosexual intercourse (only allowed when this is the preferred and usual lifestyle of the participant) to prevent pregnancy and drug exposure of a partner and refrain from donating sperm from the first administration of IMP until 4 weeks after the last administration of IMP. Any female partner of a non-vasectomised male participant who is of child-bearing potential must use contraceptive methods with a failure rate of \< 1% to prevent pregnancy (see above) from at least 2 weeks prior to the first administration of IMP to 4 weeks after the last administration of IMP. Exclusion Criteria: * Life expectancy \< 3 months. * Planned treatment or treatment with another investigational drug or investigational device within 3 months prior to the day of the tumour sampling procedure. * Patients who are pregnant, or currently breastfeeding. * Investigator considers the patient unlikely to comply with clinical performance study procedures, restrictions and requirements. * Part B only: no µCAN report was generated from Part A. * Part B only: Patient is not eligible for trifluridine/tipiracil/bevacizumab combination therapy.
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Locations
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Akershus University Hospital
RECRUITINGLørenskog, Akershus, 1478, Norway
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