Study of Copper Isotope in Head and Neck Cancer

• Conditions: Head and Neck Tumors
• Interventions: Procedure: Samples collection

• Registration Number: NCT02864836
• Lead Sponsor: Lille Catholic University

Brief Summary

The distribution of stable (non-radioactive) isotopes in living organisms is increasingly studied, in particular the zinc (Zn), copper (Cu) and iron (Fe), not only in primitive organisms, but also in mammals.

The scientific community shows a growing interest in the study of the isotopic distribution of Cu in humans: this distribution can vary according to gender or nutrition. Concerning pathology, the isotopic distribution of Cu seems interesting in Wilson's disease or in cirrhosis.

Additionally, a promising area of study focuses on the role of Cu in cancerous tumors, neoangiogenesis, the mechanisms of free radicals reduction and signaling pathways.

Head and neck cancers are sensitive to platinum salts. Links between platinum and Cu are important: platinum penetrates into the cell through a Cu receptor, it interacts with the regulation mechanisms of Cu and platinum.

Preliminary studies suggest a variation of the measurable isotopic distribution of Zn in patients with breast tumor and of Cu in patients presenting breast as well as colorectal tumors.

The Larner et al. study suggest a promising role of Zn in breast cancer, indeed, results highlight a variation of distribution of Zn in 10 breast tumors. Concerning the study of Télouk et al. on 8 patients presenting colorectal tumors and 20 patients presenting breast tumors, results are in favor of an increase of mortality when Cu 65 is decreased in the serum and the isotopic modifications happen earlier than usual modifications of biochemical tumor markers such as: carbohydrate antigen (CA) 19.9, Carcinoma Antigen (CA) 15.3, Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA).

Currently, there is no information about the distribution of the stable isotopes of Cu in head and neck tumors.

The objective of the study is to determine if the distribution of 65Cu / 63Cu is modified in tumoral tissues compared to healthy tissues. The isotopic distribution of the Cu in 2 tumor types, head and neck tumors and lymphomas, will be also investigated in order to determine if this distribution is specific of a tumor type or not.

In case of positivity of this variation, the prognostic interest of these parameters will be evaluated.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2016-08-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-08-09
• Study First Posted: 2016-08-12
• Study Start: 2017-05-15
• Status Verified: 2020-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-01-08
• Last Update Posted: 2020-01-10
• Primary Completion: 2021-11
• Study Completion: 2021-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 7

Inclusion Criteria

Clinical diagnosis of head and neck malignant tumors or clinical diagnosis of head and neck lymphoma requiring sampling for diagnosis or clinical diagnosis of a non tumoral ENT pathology requiring surgery

Exclusion Criteria

Refusal of consent

Inability to consent

Pregnant or breastfeeding women

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Patients with head or neck cancer	Samples collection	Samples collection
Patients with lymphoma	Samples collection	Samples collection
Patients without tumoral pathology	Samples collection	Samples collection

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Ratio of the different stable isotopes of copper in the various samples and groups	Baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient survival rate	at 5 years
mRNA expression level of proteins involved in copper metabolism assessed by Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)	baseline

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

GHICL; 🇫🇷 Lille, France

ENS Lyon; 🇫🇷 Lyon, France