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specta@eortc.org


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Be Part of Research - Trial Details - SPECTA: Screening Cancer Patients for Efficient Clinical Trial Access

SPECTA: Screening Cancer Patients for Efficient Clinical Trial Access

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SPECTA is a quality assured platform for collecting clinicopathologically annotated biological material, imaging data, operative images, environmental assessment, questionnaires as well as patient-reported outcomes from cancer patients to support biospecimen-based translational research and clinical cancer research, including biomarker discovery to improve the understanding of tumor biology and cancer patients care.

Start dates may differ between countries and research sites. The research team are responsible for keeping the information up-to-date.  

The recruitment start and end dates are as follows:

May 2017 Mar 2026

OBSERVATIONAL

Intervention Type : GENETIC
Intervention Description : WES, lcWGS and RNAseq, multiplex IF and IMC

Intervention Arm Group : RP-1828 IMMUcan (CLOSED for recruitment since August 2024);

Intervention Type : GENETIC
Intervention Description : WES, RNAseq and EPIC array

Intervention Arm Group : RP-1759 AYA/TYA (CLOSED for recruitment since December 2021);

Intervention Type : GENETIC
Intervention Description : NGS panel

Intervention Arm Group : RP-1843 Arcagen (CLOSED for recruitment since November 2022);

Intervention Type : GENETIC
Intervention Description : NGS panel

Intervention Arm Group : RP-1920 BioRadon;



You can take part if:



You may not be able to take part if:


This is in the inclusion criteria above


Below are the locations for where you can take part in the trial. Please note that not all sites may be open.

  • Royal Free Hospital
    London
    NW3 2QG
  • Hereford County Hospital
    Hereford
    HR1 2ER
  • Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - Glan Clwyd District General Hospital
    Bodelwyddan
    Denbighshire
    LL18 5UJ
  • University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) - UHB-Queen Elisabeth Medical Centre
    Birmingham
    B15 2TH
  • Royal Orthopaedics Hospital, NHS Trust
    Birmingham
    B312AP
  • Cambridge University Hospital NHS - Addenbrookes Hospital
    Cambridge
    CB2 0QQ
  • Velindre NHS Trust - Velindre Cancer Centre
    Cardiff
    CF14 2TL
  • University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust - University Hospital
    Coventry
    CV2 2DX
  • NHS Lothian - Western General Hospital
    Edinburgh
    EH4 2XU
  • NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde - Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre - Gartnavel General Hospital
    Glasgow
    G12 OYN
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - St. James's University Hospital
    Leeds
    LS9 7TF
  • The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
    Manchester
    M20 4BX


The study is sponsored by European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC




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