# Studying Biomarkers in Tumor Tissue and Blood Samples From Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy for Stage II or Stage III Rectal Cancer That Can Be Removed By Surgery

> **NCT00960427** · PHASE1 · WITHDRAWN · sponsor: **Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute**

## Conditions studied

- Colorectal Cancer

## Interventions

- **DRUG:** systemic chemotherapy
- **GENETIC:** RNA analysis
- **GENETIC:** gene expression analysis
- **GENETIC:** reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction
- **OTHER:** immunohistochemistry staining method
- **OTHER:** laboratory biomarker analysis
- **PROCEDURE:** endoscopic biopsy
- **PROCEDURE:** neoadjuvant therapy
- **PROCEDURE:** sigmoidoscopy
- **RADIATION:** radiation therapy

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00960427
- **Lead sponsor:** Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** PHASE1
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** WITHDRAWN
- **Start date:** 2009-06
- **Primary completion:** 2010-04
- **Final completion:** 2010-04
- **Target enrollment:** 0 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** No surgeon available to perfrom gastroscopy
- **Last updated:** 2013-04-16

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00960427

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00960427, "Studying Biomarkers in Tumor Tissue and Blood Samples From Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy for Stage II or Stage III Rectal Cancer That Can Be Removed By Surgery". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00960427. Licensed CC0.

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