Scientists launch massive cancer biobank to unlock tumor secrets
NCT ID NCT03017573
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study collects tumor and blood samples from over 1,000 people with certain cancers (ovarian, breast, head and neck, cervical, vulva, and sarcoma). Researchers will analyze the samples to find links between genetic changes, the immune system, and how the cancer behaves. Participants receive standard treatments; no experimental drugs are given. The goal is to improve future diagnosis and treatment.
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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 1,050 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jan 2017
- Expected to finish
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Jan 2032
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.
- 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. Tumor types : 1. Newly diagnosed treatment-naïve ovarian cancer patients eligible for surgery or neoadjuvant chemotherapy 2. Newly diagnosed treatment-naïve triple-negative breast cancer patients eligible for surgery or neoadjuvant chemotherapy 3. Newly diagnosed treatment-naïve head and neck cancer patients eligible for surgery 4. Newly diagnosed treatment-naïve vulva cancer (all types) or cervical cancer patients with (1) stage Ia - IIa1 with nodal metastasis, postoperative positive margin or parametrial-vaginal involvement, and (2) stage ≥IIa2). 5. Newly diagnosed treatment-naïve sarcoma cancer patients (1) breast angiosarcoma or (2) uterine sarcoma eligible for surgery or systemic treatment 2. Male or female patients ≥ 18 years of age 3. Signed informed consent Exclusion Criteria: 1. Male or female patients ≤18 years old 2. Patients with any psychological, familial, sociological or geographical condition potentially hampering compliance with the study protocol and follow-up schedule 3. Individually deprived of liberty or placed under the authority of a tutor 4. Patients not affiliated to the Social Security System
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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
6 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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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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Centre Leon Berard
RECRUITINGLyon, 69373, France
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Centre Oscar Lambret
RECRUITINGLille, 59000, France
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Institut Bergonie
RECRUITINGBordeaux, 33076, France
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Institut Curie
RECRUITINGParis, 75005, France
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Institut Curie Hopital Rene Huguenin
RECRUITINGSaint-Cloud, 92210, France
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Institut de Cancérologie de Lorraine - Nancy
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGVandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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