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Table 2.

All ongoing oncology clinical trials involving the removal of soluble TNFR

Cytokine	Clinical trial ID	Phase	Number of patients	Cancer type	Treatment	Status	Estimated study completion date
TNFα	NCT04004910	I/II	170	Advanced breast cancer	Three-way comparison between plasma soluble TNFR pulldown with or without chemotherapy, and chemotherapy alone	Recruiting	July 2023
TNFα	NCT04142931	I	30	Stage IV non-small cell lung cancer, stage IV melanoma, triple-negative breast cancer, or stage IV renal cell carcinoma	Reduction of soluble TNFR, with or without nivolumab	Recruiting	December 2022
TNFα	NCT04690686	II	24	Non-small cell lung cancer	Reduction of soluble TNFR alone, or with atezolizumab or paclitaxel	Recruiting	December 2022

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