Measuring the Impact of Onco4D® Guidance
Measuring the Impact of Onco4D® Guidance
Millions of cancer patients each year receive chemotherapy causing adverse side effects that lower quality of life without prolonging it. Reliable identification of ineffective therapies can eliminate needless human suffering while increasing overall probability of positive response to treatment. Chemotherapy resistance profiling entails testing whether a patient exhibits strong resistance to a therapy prior to its final selection by the oncologist.
The Onco4D® chemotherapy selection assay has recently emerged as means to measure the response of intact tumor biopsies to applied therapeutics by using Doppler detection of infrared light scattered from intracellular motions inside living tissue (known as Motility Contrast Tomography or MCT). Several studies have shown this phenotypic profiling technique to offer high accuracy predicting response and resistance to chemotherapy[1-5].
SPECIFIC AIMS The scope of this study is to measure the impact of Onco4D® therapy guidance on treatment and outcomes among cancer patients for whom the test is ordered.
PRIMARY ENDPOINT: Difference in pathologic complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy among recipients of Onco4D® guided therapy as compared to baseline unguided pCR rates.
SECONDARY ENDPOINTS: Difference in distribution of chemotherapy regimens among recipients of Onco4D® guided therapy as compared to baseline unguided regimens, adjuvant chemotherapy response, 2 and 5 year event free survival (EFS), pre- and post-chemotherapy cancer staging scores (TNM, ACJJ, RCB, etc..), radiologic chemotherapy response, additional exploratory endpoints as appropriate
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS
STUDY DESIGN: Non-randomized multi-center prospective outcomes registry
PARTICIPANT IDENTIFICATION: Cancer patients of all races and ethnic groups are eligible for this registry. All patients treated at participating sites and meeting the inclusion criteria will be offered the opportunity to participate in the registry. Potential participants will be presented with the purpose of the study and the potential risks and benefits of participation. Participants will be considered registered to the study upon receipt of a signed informed consent statement. Registration information will be maintained by the Principal Investigator. All participants will be assigned a unique study ID.
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