Pancreatic cancer CRO

Accelerate timelines and navigate complexity with a proven pancreatic cancer CRO

When someone is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the diagnosis is often late, treatment is challenging, and long-term survival is low. It’s a difficult diagnosis for patients and their families to face. But with new treatments like yours, patients get more options and opportunities.

At Parexel, we’re a global pancreatic cancer CRO that offers integrated services across every phase of clinical development, bringing innovation and expertise to your project so you can recruit the patients you need, navigate scientific and regulatory complexities, and change lives everywhere. We can help you with:

  • Novel targeted therapies
  • Immunotherapies and combination approaches
  • Neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment strategies
  • Biomarker-driven precision medicine approaches
  • Studies for both localized and metastatic disease
  • Supportive care interventions
     

 


 

Experience in the past 5 years in pancreatic cancer

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Advantages

Proven oncology expertise

Our dedicated oncology team has extensive expertise in gastrointestinal cancers. That includes over 100 staff with pancreatic cancer therapy experience specifically. We understand the evolving standards of care for pancreatic cancer and how to apply the right innovations and approaches to your trial.


Advanced patient recruitment & retention
 

As your pancreatic cancer CRO, we offer patient recruitment and retention strategies to help you navigate this cancer’s unique challenges. Aggressive disease progression, late diagnosis, resistance to therapies, and disease heterogeneity all make it harder to find the right patients and keep them engaged. But through patient education, surveys, burden analyses, and other tactics — including guidance from Chief Patient Officer Stacy Hurt, who’s a cancer survivor herself — we can help achieve your goals.


Innovative study designs

We design your trials with the latest innovations and capabilities, tailoring them to address the unique challenges of pancreatic cancer. We use adaptive trial designs to address disease heterogeneity, biomarker-driven strategies to hone in on patient populations, real-world evidence to support traditional clinical endpoints, and more.


Global regulatory strategy and support

Our regulatory strategy team is 1,000+ strong, with proven experience navigating pancreatic cancer studies around the world. We’re staffed with around 50 former regulators from around the world, covering 110 countries and submitting 1,350+ product reviews and annual reports each year. We’re ready to guide your pancreatic cancer therapy every step of the way to approval and beyond.


Biomarker expertise
 

Our experience as an oncology CRO includes experience working with all types of biomarkers, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. We also have deep expertise in biomarker strategy development for patient stratification and targeted therapy approaches. 

CASE STUDY

Navigating new frontiers in pancreatic cancer treatment

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Situation

We conducted a Phase II, open-label study in patients with Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC). We enrolled 130 subjects in Canada, Republic of Korea, Spain, and the United States. We faced a few challenges:

  • The tumor biopsy required during screening to confirm CD8+ cytotoxic T cells had a long turnaround time for tissue processing.
  • An extended screening period of 28 days prevented patients from receiving alternative treatments.
  • The patient population included very ill patients, disrupting the standard schedule of procedures and sample collections due to hospitalizations or disease progression.
     

Solution

  • An optional Cycle 3 biopsy dependent on patient condition was implemented, which helped reduce patient burden and mitigate challenges associated with the long turnaround times for biopsy results.
  • Increasing communication and streamlining the screening process with the tissue sampling vendor improved biopsy result turnaround times and allowed us to meet the projected timelines.
  • Providing travel and lodging support along with patient stipends for long-distance study visits helped retain patients and get the necessary assessments across an extended visit
     

Outcome

We achieved our goals, with Last Patient First Visit and Final Database Lock milestones reached on time.