Trial Comparing Standard of Care Therapy With and Without Sequential Cytoreductive Intervention for Patients With Metastatic Foregut Adenocarcinoma and Undetectable Circulating Tumor-Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (ctDNA) Levels
Phase II Prospective, Open Label Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Standard of Care Therapy With and Without Sequential Cytoreductive Intervention for Patients With Metastatic Foregut Adenocarcinoma and Undetectable Circulating Tumor-Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (ctDNA) Levels
Yale University
54 participants
Mar 1, 2026
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This is a randomized, open label, single-center, phase 2, randomized controlled trial of sequential cytoreductive intervention versus standard of care therapy for patients with intervenable oligometastatic (stage IV) cancer of the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract and undetectable ctDNA at the time of randomization after a three-month induction chemotherapy period.
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Interventions
A treatment plan that involves multiple procedures given one after another to remove cancerous tumors depending on metastasis.
A personalized blood test that detects circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to monitor for molecular residual disease (MRD) in patients who have been diagnosed with cancer.
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NCT07282912