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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT01558349
Date of registration: 17/03/2012
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nimes
Public title: Circulating Tumor Cells and Melanoma: Comparing the EPISPOT and CellSearch Techniques
Scientific title: Circulating Tumor Cells and Melanoma: Comparing the EPISPOT (EPithelial ImmunoSPOT) and CellSearch Techniques
Date of first enrolment: June 27, 2013
Target sample size: 73
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01558349
Study type:  Observational
Study design:   
Phase: 
Countries of recruitment
France
Contacts
Name:     Laurent Meunier, MD
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Affiliation:  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de NĂ®mes
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- The patient must have given his/her informed and signed consent

- The patient must be insured or beneficiary of a health insurance plan

- The patient is available, within the hours of his/her normally scheduled medical care,
for blood sampling at 8 am and 4 pm on the same day.

Inclusion Criteria for patients:

- Stage 4 melanoma, without other associated neoplasms

Inclusion Criteria for controls:

- Patient without cancer, nor history of cancer

Exclusion Criteria:

- The patient is participating in another study

- The patient is in an exclusion period determined by a previous study

- The patient is under judicial protection, under tutorship or curatorship

- The patient refuses to sign the consent

- It is impossible to correctly inform the patient

- The patient is pregnant, parturient, or breastfeeding

- The patient has a contra-indication for a treatment used in this study

Exclusion criteria for patients:

- Stage 1 to 3 melanoma, or other types of cancer

Exclusion criteria for controls:

- History of cancer



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Metastatic Melanoma
Intervention(s)
Primary Outcome(s)
Presence/absence of at least 2 CMCs per ml blood, both techniques [Time Frame: Day 1 at 8 am]
Secondary Outcome(s)
CMCs per ml blood, CellSearch [Time Frame: Day 1 at 8 am]
delta CMC [Time Frame: Day 1 at 8 am]
% delta CMC [Time Frame: Day 1 at 8 am]
Presence/absence of KI67 antigen markers [Time Frame: Day 1 at 8 am]
CMCs per ml blood, Epispot [Time Frame: Day 1 at 8 am]
% cells with S100 protein markers [Time Frame: Day 1 at 8 am]
Secondary ID(s)
LOCAL/2011/LM-05
2011-A01156-35
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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