Live biopsy study aims to predict immunotherapy response in cancer patients
NCT ID NCT07327489
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 30, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study is collecting live tumor samples from 2,000 cancer patients undergoing standard biopsies. Researchers will analyze these samples to understand how tumors respond to immunotherapy drugs outside the body. The goal is to develop a method to predict which patients will respond to treatment, potentially saving time and reducing side effects from ineffective therapies.
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 research could lead to a test that helps doctors predict which patients will benefit from immunotherapy, avoiding ineffective treatments.
- What could go wrong
- This is an observational study, not a treatment trial. It is early-stage research, and the findings may not translate into a reliable clinical test for years, if at all.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 2,000 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Apr 2025
- Expected to finish
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Apr 2038
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.
Who is studied
Adults aged 18 years or older, who are able and willing to provide written informed consent, have a suspected or confirmed cancer diagnosis and will be undergoing a biopsy or similar procedure to obtain tumor tissue as a normal course of their medical management or diagnostic work-up.
- 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: 1. Able and willing to provide informed consent for participation 2. Age ≥18 years at time of consent. 3. Have a suspected or confirmed cancer diagnosis that is to be evaluated by means of a biopsy. 4. Subjects who are newly diagnosed or have suspected cancer must be treatment-naïve at the time of biopsy. All other subjects should have the biopsy performed before starting their next line of treatment. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Have a known auto-immune disease or prior condition (prior organ transplant, chronic kidney or liver disease) that renders them ineligible for immunotherapy (IO) treatment. 2. Severely immunocompromised person(s). Examples include patients on immunosuppressants, HIV positive patients on antiretrovirals, post transplantation patients. 3. Pregnant person(s).
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
8 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the study team's own contact details, including names and phone numbers. We don't republish those.
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A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Baylor Scott and White Biorepository
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGTemple, Texas, 76508, United States
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Frederick Health Hospital
RECRUITINGFrederick, Maryland, 21702, United States
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JPS Health Network
RECRUITINGForth Worth, Texas, 76104, United States
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Mercy Hospital - FTS
RECRUITINGFort Smith, Arkansas, 72903, United States
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Mercy Hospital - OKC
RECRUITINGOklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73120, United States
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Mercy Hospital - SPG
RECRUITINGSpringfield, Missouri, 65804, United States
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Mercy Hospital - South
RECRUITINGSt Louis, Missouri, 63128, United States
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Mercy Hospital -STL
RECRUITINGSt Louis, Missouri, 63141, United States
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