Recruiting

E-Nose Technology

Sponsor:

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Code:

NCT06037941

Conditions

Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 30 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

E-Nose testing

Research blood

Study Details

Brief summary:

The researchers are doing this study to test the ability of a new technology called breathprinting, or electronic nose (E-Nose), to measure how people respond to standard treatment for malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). The researchers will study how E-Nose breathprints change over time as people receive standard treatment for MPM. They will also look at how changes in people's E-Nose breathprints compare to changes in their standard imaging scans and in biomarkers of MPM in their blood.

Conditions

Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Study ID

NCT06037941

Start date

Sep 8, 2023

Status verified date

Sep, 2025

Completion date

Sep, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Sep, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 30 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Aged 30-85 years
  • No history of thoracic cancer or extrathoracic cancer potentially involving pleural metastases (i.e., breast, gastric, colon, or pancreas cancer)
  • Recent diagnosis of MPM
  • Documented, signed, and dated informed consent, obtained before any procedures, for the proposed research study, and signed standard surgical consent for surgical resection

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Aged <30 or >85 years at the first outpatient visit
  • History of thoracic or extrathoracic cancer that puts the subject at risk for pleural or pulmonary metastases

Study Design

Enrollment

20 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Diagnostic

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: E-Nose Technology

Patients undergo a breathprinting test (E-Nose) at baseline and at the first three standard of care follow-ups, as scheduled by their treating physician, that involve a CT of the Chest and/or PET/CT. The E-Nose testing will be administered by trained staff. Staff will use proper personal protective equipment during collections. Subjects will undergo E-Nose testing in a presurgical or interventional radiology suite. Subjects must consent to no smoking, no tooth brushing, and no food or drinks starting on midnight of the day of the E-Nose test. If fasting from midnight until the E-Nose test is not feasible, subjects may consent to fasting for 2 hours prior to each E-Nose test. Subjects opting to fast for 2 hours before each E-Nose test can only have still, non-carbonated water and non-aromatic foods or foods that do not develop aromatic compounds, such as low salt simple crackers, starting at midnight on the day of the E-Nose test until 2 hours before the collection.

Interventions

E-Nose testing

At baseline (before any treatment is administered) approximately when the patient is scheduled for a CT of the Chest and/or PET/CT after initiation of any treatment, as medically permissible and at the PI's discretion. A breath sample from each patient will be captured in a cartridge, which will form the basis for the E-Nose analysis, to be performed by study investigators at UCB.

Research blood

Research blood tests will be obtained at baseline and the first three standard of care follow up visits, scheduled by their treating physician along with a CT of the Chest and/or PET/CT1 to determine whether serum biomarkers of MPM.

Primary outcome measure

  • Change of MPMspecific VOCs [ Time Frame: up to 1 year ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

David Jones, MD

212-639-6428

Locations

Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (Consent Only)

Recruiting

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States, 07920

Contacts

Gaetano Rocco, MD

212-639-3478

Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Consent Only)

Recruiting

Middletown, New Jersey, United States, 07748

Contacts

Gaetano Rocco, MD

212-639-3478

Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Consent Only )

Recruiting

Montvale, New Jersey, United States, 07645

Contacts

Gaetano Rocco, MD

212-639-3478

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center @ Suffolk-Commack (Consent Only)

Recruiting

Commack, New York, United States, 11725

Contacts

Gaetano Rocco, MD

212-639-3478

Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (Consent Only)

Recruiting

Harrison, New York, United States, 10604

Contacts

Gaetano Rocco, MD

212-639-3478

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (All Protocol Activities)

Recruiting

New York, New York, United States, 10065

Contacts

Gaetano Rocco, MD

212-639-3478

Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (Consent Only)

Recruiting

Uniondale, New York, United States, 11553

Contacts

Gaetano Rocco, MD

212-639-3478

More Information

Sponsor

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Last update posted

Sep 22, 2025

Last verified

Sep, 2025

Keywords

  • Breathprinting (E-Nose) Technology
  • MPM-Specific Volatile Organic Compounds
  • 23-100

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on 2025-09-22.