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Samples (urine, serum, whole blood and cystic fluid) will be taken from 50 patients with pancreatic cysts on follow-up. These will be sent to the University of Hull for analysis of tumour regulatory molecules (e.g. TF, AM). Some of the cystic fluid and the whole blood sample will either be analysed at the University of Hull or a commercial laboratory for proteomic and genomic data. Collection will occur on the same day of the participants' routinely indicated procedure.

Samples (urine and serum) will be taken from 50 patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (resectable and non-resectable). These will be sent to the University of Hull for analysis of tumour regulatory molecules (e.g. TF, AM).

Samples (urine and serum) will be taken from 80 age- and gender-matched control patients - 20 patients with acute pancreatitis and a non-resolving pseudocyst, 20 undergoing cholecystectomy for stones, 20 undergoing cholecystectomy for inflammation and 20 patients undergoing investigations for dyspepsia (normal control subgroup). These will be sent to the University of Hull for analysis of tumour regulatory molecules (e.g. TF, AM).

Anthony Maraveyas

James Illingworth

The effective diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is often quite challenging, due to a lack of disease-specific symptoms, resulting in the majority of patients presenting with advanced disease, with an associated dismal prognosis. Earlier detection of pancreatic cancer, at a stage where surgery is feasible, would greatly increase the 5-year survival rate. Detecting pancreatic cancer early is therefore vital to improve the prognosis for these patients.

Pre-cancerous pancreatic cysts are an early indicator of malignant transformation. The ideal screening test would be capable of detecting pancreatic cancer at these initial stages. Current procedures for pancreatic cancer diagnosis are invasive, uncomfortable and costly, and can be considered unnecessary in those cysts found to be benign.

We propose to study a number of tumour regulatory molecules that have been the subject of research in laboratories at the University of Hull (e.g., tissue factor (TF), adrenomedullin (AM) using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) tests) that have been studied in the context of carcinogenic transformation in more common malignancies but have yet to be fully tested in pancreatic malignant transformation. The recent introduction of platform technologies at the University of Hull has broadened this area of investigation by giving us access to next generation genomic sequencing and proteomic analyses of small amounts of tissue samples. We intend to analyse pancreatic cystic fluid samples using these technologies to discover new regulatory molecules.

Altogether, his study will measure the levels of novel regulatory molecules and genetic changes involved with pancreatic cancer carcinogenesis using a combination of conventional techniques (e.g. ELISA) and state-of-the-art platform technologies in pancreatic cysts from those patients in whom cancer may be suspected, to determine the potential of these molecules to serve as markers to detect early changes towards pancreatic cancer.

Tumour Regulatory Molecules in Early Pancreatic Cancer Detection

Study of Tumour Regulatory Molecules as Markers of Malignancy in Pancreatic Cystic Lesions

The ELISAs and platform technologies will provide measurements of the markers (e.g. TF, AM) concentrations in patient urine, serum and cystic fluid samples. This will then be immediately linked to information on the pancreatic cancer diagnosis where it is known (i.e. cancer and control groups) and, for patients with pancreatic cysts, linked to information obtained following diagnostic work-up (and over the follow-up period), to determine the accuracy of these markers in the potential early detection of pancreatic cancer within the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) pancreatic cancer population.

Patients with a known cancer diagnosis, compared to controls, will be used to determine whether a suitable cut-off for each assay can be found for accurate detection.

University of Hull

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Genetic Predisposition to Disease

Disease Susceptibility

Familial Pancreatic Cancer

Gastrointestinal Agents

All Drugs and Chemicals

Pancrelipase

Pancreatin

Patients that meet the eligibility criteria based on CAPS3 or updated national pancreatic cancer screening guidelines

Screening for pancreatic cancer using EUS or MRI

Screening for pancreatic cancer

Roya Dastjerdi, MD

Roya Dastjerdi, MPH

Mandeep Sawhney, MD,MS,FASGE

Andy Silva-Santisteban, MD

The investigators' goal is to conduct a prospective multicenter study to evaluate the yield and outcomes of screening of pancreas cancer in individuals who are at-risk for pancreatic cancer. We plan to use International Cancer of the Pancreas Screening (CAPS3) Consortium recommendations to standardize study population, screening methodology, and study outcomes.

Methods The investigators' goal is to conduct a prospective multicenter study to evaluate the yield and outcomes of pancreas cancer screening in high-risk individuals. High-risk patients who are undergoing pancreatic cancer screening in accordance with national guidelines at participating study centers will be eligible for the study. Information regarding patient characteristics, findings at screening examination, and patient outcomes will be collected.

Primary Outcome (Primary Aim):

To identify the proportion of patients who meet International Cancer of the Pancreas Screening Consortium screening criteria 3rd update (CAPS Jan 2020), or more updated national guidelines, who are found at the screening to have high-risk pancreatic lesions amenable to treatment (definition of "high-risk lesions amenable to treatment" is provided under the section on study outcomes).

Secondary outcomes (Secondary Aims) will include (details are provided under the section on study outcomes):

1. Proportion of patients diagnosed with any stage pancreatic cancer
2. proportion of patients undergoing pancreatic surgery
3. Cancer-related outcome, defined as a cancer-related death
4. proportion of patients experience harms, defined as any complications/adverse event due to screen related procedures
5. Comparison of cancer outcome, defined cancer-related death, in screen-detected cancer with cancer outcomes reported by the SEERs population-based registry. Study overview Study type: a prospective observational cohort High-risk patients who meet study inclusion criteria at study centers will be identified.

Screening and patient follow-up will be performed at individual study centers per standard clinical practice. Patient characteristics, screening performed and screening results, clinical outcome data will be collected by individual study centers. This data will be stored and analyzed at central study REDCap located at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)

Pancreatic Cancer Screening for At-risk Individuals

Pancreatic Cancer Screening for At-risk Individuals (The Pancreas Scan Study)

Proportion of patients who meet CAPS 3 or updated national screening guidelines criteria who are found at screening to have high-risk pancreatic lesions amenable to treatment. These are defined as the following: Lesions with high-grade dysplasia (HGD), High-grade pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN), Resectable or borderline resectable pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancers that were staged T1-3, N0-2, and M0 designated as resectable or borderline resectable. Cancers that were staged as T4 or M1 were considered locally advanced or metastatic and therefore designated as unresectable, Main duct intra-ductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN)., Branch-duct IPMN with "worrisome features", cyst associated with an abrupt change in main pancreatic duct caliber with pancreatic atrophy, Neuroendocrine tumor ≥ 2 cm.

Proportion of patients who meet CAPS screening eligibility criteria, who are found at screening to have high-risk pancreatic lesions amenable to treatment

Proportion of patients undergoing pancreatic cancer screening who are found to have low or moderate-risk pancreatic lesions. Low or moderate-risk pancreatic lesions pancreatic lesions are defined as:

1. Branch-duct IPMN without HGD
2. Neuroendocrine tumor \< 2 cm
3. dilation of main pancreatic duct \< 8 mm
4. Chronic pancreatitis-like change

Proportion of patients who undergo pancreatic surgery as a result of screening test results following the Fukuoka revised guidelines for the management for high-risk lesions or surgical treatment designated by interdisciplinary medical team

Proportion of patients who undergo "low-yield pancreatic surgery" as a result of screening test results. Low yield pancreatic surgery is defined surgery where surgical pathology does not yield high-risk pancreatic lesions. See primary outcome for definition of high-risk pancreatic lesions.

Proportion of patients who undergo non- pancreatic surgery as a result of screening test results.

Proportion of patients who experienced any complications or adverse events due to screen-related procedures as Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS), Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) or others that have been designated by attending in the GI department. Complications and adverse events will be aggregated to be reported as one value (complications/adverse events). Complications, defined as adverse events that emphasize direct causality between medical care and the adverse outcome or event. Adverse event, defined as an event that may or may not be preventable or result from a medical error

Study title	NCT ID	Conditions	Interventions	Eligibility	Organization	Link
Tumour Regulatory Molecules in Early Pancreatic Cancer Detection	NCT03536793	Cancer of Pancr... Pancreas Cyst		18 Years -	Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Pancreatic Cancer Screening for At-risk Individuals	NCT05006131	Pancreatic Canc...	Screening for p...	18 Years - 90 Years	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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