Personalized cancer treatment: matching drugs to tumor DNA may delay disease worsening
NCT ID NCT07346209
First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Sep 04, 2026 · Updated 3 times
Summary
This study tests whether drugs chosen to match specific DNA mutations in a patient's tumor can delay cancer worsening better than standard treatments. About 280 adults with metastatic or unresectable solid cancers will be randomly assigned to receive either DNA-matched therapy or standard care. Participants will visit the clinic every two months for checkups and imaging to track their progress.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Molecularly matched therapy (drugs chosen based on tumor DNA mutations)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that personalized, DNA-matched drugs delay cancer worsening better than standard treatments.
- What could go wrong
- This is a Phase 2 trial, so results are early and may not confirm benefit. The approach depends on finding actionable mutations, which may not be possible for all patients.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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About 280 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Dec 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Sep 2031
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.
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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: 1. Provision of signed and dated informed consent form. 2. Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study. 3. Aged at least 18 years. 4. Metastatic or unresectable solid cancers (all) with a 2-year cancer-associated mortality of ≥ 50%, or immediate prior progression free survival \< 4 months, or life expectancy between 6 and 16 months as determined at prescreening and/or enrollment due to cancer diagnosis. 5. Previous treatment with up to 2 lines of cancer therapy before enrollment. 6. Available results of tumor imaging performed within 4 weeks prior to randomization or eligible to obtain imaging as part of routine care. Note that patients are not eligible if their tumor imaging was performed more than 4 weeks before randomization, or if the imaging to be performed at screening is within 6 weeks of their previous imaging. 7. Measurable disease by RECIST v 1.1 based on computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging or positron emission tomography/computed tomography scan performed within 4 weeks prior to randomization. 8. Case discussed by Molecular Tumor Board with consensus treatment recommendation(s). 9. Presence of at least 1 tumor-derived molecular alteration/biomarker with a molecularly matched therapy option per Molecular Tumor Board recommendation. 1. Molecular profile needs to be performed in tumor tissue or circulating tumor DNA collected in the 6 months before enrollment and analyzed by next generation sequencing, immunohistochemistry, and/or alternative technology in a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments-accredited and College of American Pathologists-certified clinical laboratory. 2. All prior pathology and molecular studies may be reviewed and considered by the Molecular Tumor Board. 3. Molecularly matched therapy options are restricted to Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs. 10. Eligible for at least 1 additional unmatched standard of care therapy. 11. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status score of 0 or 1. 12. At the time of the screening/baseline visit, patients must be off prior antibody therapy for at least 3 half-lives, and other anti-tumor agents for at least 5 half-lives, or total 3 weeks from the last day of treatment, whichever is shortest. 13. Adequate hematologic, hepatic, and renal function, as specified below: 1. Absolute Neutrophil Count ≥ 1.5 x 10\^9/L 2. Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL 3. Platelets ≥ 50 x 10\^9/L 4. Serum total bilirubin \< 2.0 x upper limit of normal 5. Aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase ≤ 5 x upper limit of normal 6. Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal or calculated creatinine clearance ≥ 50ml/min based upon the Cockcroft-Gault Equation \[CrCl = (140-age) \* actual weight (in kg) \* (0.85 if female) / (72 \* Cr)\]. 14. For participants able to become pregnant or cause a pregnancy: use of highly effective contraception during treatment with the study therapy and for 3 months afterwards. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Presence of very high tumor mutational burden as ≥ 20 mutations/megabase. 2. Presence of a microsatellite instability-high as defined by the testing laboratory. 3. Deficiency of mismatch repair genes: MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, or PMS2. 4. Molecular Tumor Board treatment recommendation is a monotherapy with an immune checkpoint inhibitor. 5. Molecular Tumor Board treatment recommendation is considered a standard of care regimen per NCCN guidelines (including treatments considered useful in certain circumstances). * Example 1: Presence of BRAF V600E in lung cancer as the sole molecularly matched target is ineligible, given Food and Drug Administration approval of combination BRAFi/MEKi. * Example 2: Presence of BRAF V600E and CDKN2A mutation in lung cancer is eligible, if the Molecular Tumor Board recommendation is the non-standard of care combination of BRAFi/MEKi + CDK4/6i * Example 3: Presence of KRAS G12C in breast cancer is eligible as the use of KRAS inhibitors for this specific tumor type is not standard of care. * Example 4: Presence of KRAS G12A mutation in colon cancer is eligible if the Molecular Tumor Board recommendation is for non-standard of care MEKi. 6. Newly diagnosed symptomatic brain metastases requiring immediate treatment. Note that patients with asymptomatic or treated stable brain metastases not requiring steroids can be enrolled. 7. Increase of Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of ≥ 1 point in the 30 days prior to enrollment. 8. Pregnancy or lactation. 9. Known allergic reactions to components of the therapy. 10. Other conditions that preclude study participation at the discretion of the treating physician (e.g., organ or bone marrow dysfunction). 11. Patient is in hospice care. 12. Two oncologists disagree on prognosis or cancer resectability.
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University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California, 92093, United States
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