Most cancer treatments are developed without knowing whether the drug's targets are actually present in a patient's tumor or whether the patient is likely to benefit from the treatment. In addition, the immune environment surrounding the tumor changes significantly during the course of the disease, and the body's immune response to cancer tends to become less effective in later stages.
Currently, standard blood tests provide only basic information about a patient's immune, inflammatory, and metabolic systems. These tests do not offer a comprehensive picture of how each person's immune system is functioning. Similarly, traditional tests on tumor samples-which require frozen or preserved tissue and take a long time to process-are not fast enough to guide treatment decisions during clinical trials.
NEOREM is a "Master Protocol" which includes multiple therapeutic sub-protocols testing new immunotherapy strategies. (Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that helps the immune system fight cancer.) Neoadjuvant immunotherapies are treatments given before surgery. Their goals are to shrink the tumor to make it easier to remove, strengthen the immune system's ability to fight cancer, increase the chances of long-term recovery, and reduce the risk of the cancer returning.
This master protocol focuses on cancers that are still localized (have not spread) and aims to personalize treatments based on each patient's individual immuno-biological profile. As a part of this master protocol, a rapid analysis called PORTRAIT-which stands for "Profile in Onco-Immunology for a Rapid Treatment Research Adapted to Immunity and Tumor"-will be performed using fresh blood and tumor samples from each patient. This profiling uses highly sensitive and specific techniques to accurately detect biological markers that can predict how well someone will respond to immunotherapy before surgery.
NEOREM's overall goal is to test new treatment strategies and new methods of selecting patients (using the PORTRAIT immune profiling) to improve the effectiveness of current standard treatments for certain types of cancer while also reducing their side effects.
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Status change: Not Yet Recruiting → Recruiting2026-02-06