Diagnostic Study of Gene Alterations in Children Who Have Been Treated for Relapsed Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia - Full Text View

Purpose

RATIONALE: Diagnostic procedures, such as genetic testing, may improve the ability to detect acute lymphocytic leukemia and determine the extent of disease.

PURPOSE: Diagnostic study to try to detect changes in the genes of children who have been treated for relapsed acute lymphocytic leukemia.

Condition	Intervention
Leukemia	Procedure: laboratory biomarker analysis

MedlinePlus related topics:

Cancer Leukemia, Childhood

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Diagnostic

Official Title:	The Incidence and Prognostic Significance of P16 INK4A/ P15 INK4B Gene Alterations in Children With Relapsed ALL Treated on CCG-1941

Further study details as provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):

Study Start Date:

April 1999

Detailed Description:

OBJECTIVES:

Determine the incidence of p16/p15 homozygous deletions and p15 promoter hypermethylation in acute lymphocytic leukemia cells of children treated on protocol CCG-1941.
Determine the prognostic importance of p16/p15 abnormalities in these children.
Determine the presence or absence of p16/p15 abnormalities in the dominant clone at diagnosis if present at relapse in these patients.

OUTLINE: Frozen cells are obtained from samples collected on protocol CCG-1941. DNA is isolated and examined using Southern blot analysis to assay for deletions and promoter hypermethylation of p16 and/or p15.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Approximately 100 samples will be obtained for this study.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	up to 17 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

Diagnosis of acute lymphocytic leukemia and treated on protocol CCG-1941
Material cryopreserved in the CCG cell bank

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

Children

Performance status:

Not specified

Life expectancy:

Not specified

Hematopoietic:

Not specified

Hepatic:

Not specified

Renal:

Not specified

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

Not specified

Chemotherapy:

Not specified

Endocrine therapy:

Not specified

Radiotherapy:

Not specified

Surgery:

Not specified

Other:

See Disease Characteristics

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00003933

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Sponsors and Collaborators

Children's Oncology Group

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Investigators


Study Chair:	Stephen P. Hunger, MD	University of Florida

More Information

Clinical trial summary from the National Cancer Institute's PDQ® database This link exits the ClinicalTrials.gov site

Study ID Numbers:	CDR0000067125, COG-B9805, CCG-B9805
First Received:	November 1, 1999
Last Updated:	July 23, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00003933
Health Authority:	United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):

recurrent childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Lymphatic Diseases

Leukemia

Leukemia, Lymphoid

Immunoproliferative Disorders

Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma

Lymphoproliferative Disorders

Lymphoma

Recurrence

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Neoplasms

Neoplasms by Histologic Type

Immune System Diseases

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on November 30, 2008

Sponsors and Collaborators:	Children's Oncology Group National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Information provided by:	National Cancer Institute (NCI)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00003933