French Assessment of Minimal Residual Disease by Liquid Biopsies in Stage III Colorectal Patients
Improving personalized cancer treatments and finding the best strategies to treat each patient relies on using new diagnostic technologies. Currently, for colorectal cancer, the methods used to decide who gets additional post-surgery treatment are suboptimal. Some patients get too much treatment, while others do not get enough. There is a new way to explore if there is any cancer left in a patient's body using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) detected in blood samples. This can help decide who needs more treatment after surgery. Even though many tests have been developed, it has yet to be determined which test performs best at relevant time points. The GUIDE.MRD consortium is a group of experts, including scientists, technology, and pharmaceutical companies. The consortium is working on creating a reliable standard for the ctDNA tests, validating their clinical utility, and collecting data to help decide on the best treatment for each patient. FRENCH-MRD-CRC is the French study of the european GUIDE.MRD project.
• Colon or rectal cancer, clinical tumor stage I-III.
• Patient 18 years or older.
• Scheduled for curative intent resection surgery (including compromised curative resections).
• Participation in FRENCH.MRD.CRC part 1 - SURGERY
• Colorectal cancer, UICC stage III
• Has received curative-intent resection and is a candidate for adjuvant chemotherapy (3- or 6-months regime) Exclusion criteria
• Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis) related colon cancer
• Not treated with adjuvant chemotherapy despite indication (incomplete treatment not included)
• Treated with neoadjuvant chemo-radiation therapy
• Synchronous colorectal and non-colorectal cancer diagnosed per operative (except skin cancer other than melanoma)
• Other cancers (excluding colorectal cancer or skin cancer other than melanoma) within 3 years from eligibility screening
• Patients who are unlikely to comply with the protocol (e.g. uncooperative attitude), inability to return for subsequent visits) and/or otherwise considered by the Investigator to be unlikely to complete the study