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NCT03911999

Exosomal microRNA in Predicting the Aggressiveness of Prostate Cancer in Chinese Patients

Completed Last updated 2 June 2021
What this trial tests

trial in Prostate Cancer in 180 participants. Completed in 31 December 2020.

Timeline
3 May 2018
Primary endpoint
15 November 2020
31 December 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsorChinese University of Hong Kong
StatusCompleted
Study typeOBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment180
Start date3 May 2018
Primary completion15 November 2020
Estimated completion31 December 2020
Sites1 location across Hong Kong

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Who can join

45 and older, male only, with Prostate Cancer. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The prostate gland is a clinically important male accessory sex gland and vital for its production of semen. Prostate cancer (PCa) is now ranked 3th in annual incidence of male cancer and ranked 5th for cancer-related death in men in Hong Kong which accounts for about 10.9 deaths per 100,000 persons. Its incidence is rising rapidly, almost tripled in the past 10 years. Fortunately, with the improvement in awareness of the disease and also increasing use of serum prostate specific antigen for early case identification, many patients are diagnosed at an earlier stage. However, unlike other malignancy, PCa is characterized by its slow progression nature. Therefore, some patients with low grade low volume disease might never suffered from PCa related complications or mortality. As a result, recent year, there is an increase use a more conservative approach, active surveillance (AS), for management of early prostate cancer. The principle of AS is selecting patients with low risk of disease and offered them regular monitoring, instead of radical local therapy, unless patient's cancer was noticed to progressing. By using this approach, patients might avoid possible complications related to treatment. Currently, people could use some clinical parameters, imaging and repeated prostate biopsy to assess and monitor the aggressiveness/ progression of PCa. However, these parameters suffered from defects, such as low correlation to the final PCa pathology or not readily repeatable for patients. Therefore, there is a need to identify more easy, safe and repeatable monitoring of the aggressiveness of prostate cancer. Exosome is genetic materials secreted by cells and could be measured in various body fluid. There are some studies suggested it is a potential marker for PCa diagnosis and monitoring. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship of urinary exosome and the aggressiveness of prostate cancer.

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