Neuroblastoma Biology Study
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Neuroblastoma. Basic parameters: 31 Days — 99 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States, Canada
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
N2004-05: Neuroblastoma Biology Study
Overview
Medical scientists want to find better ways to treat neuroblastoma and to find ways to prevent the tumor from growing back. To do this, they need more information about the characteristics of neuroblastoma cells. Therefore, they want to study samples of neuroblastoma tissues and neuroblastoma and normal cells in the blood and bone marrow that may be related to the growth of neuroblastoma cells. Doctors and other medical scientists also want to find better ways to detect and measure neuroblastoma to improve the ability to follow the response of tumor cells to therapy.
Detailed description
The purposes of this study are:
To establish a storage place or bank of samples of blood, bone marrow, and/or tumor, and molecular components isolated from these samples from children with neuroblastoma. The stored specimens will be shared with laboratory researchers studying high risk neuroblastoma.
To collect clinical data (such as treatments received, date of diagnosis, tumor stage, etc) and radiology scans to provide this information as needed for the laboratory studies to be done on the specimens.
To obtain neuroblastoma tumor cells from tumor tissue, bone marrow, and/or blood to use to start cell lines, or tumor cells that will keep growing in the laboratory. These cell lines will be shared with laboratory researchers studying high risk neuroblastoma.
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Patients must be greater than or 31 days of age.
- Patients must have had a diagnosis of high risk neuroblastoma either by histological verification of neuroblastoma and/or demonstration of tumor cells in the bone marrow with increased urinary catecholamines.
- All patients with refractory or recurrent high risk neuroblastoma at NANT institutions are eligible regardless of disease status (including no measurable or evaluable tumor) as long as they undergo a disease evaluation and appropriate samples are submitted.
- Additionally, all patients with high risk neuroblastoma without relapse treated at a NANT institution are eligible if undergoing a disease evaluation, as long as Children's Oncology Group specimens are prioritized.
Exclusion criteria
- There are no exclusion criteria on this study.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Other
Study locations
United States · 16 centers
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles — Los Angeles
- Lucille Salter Packer Children's Hospital, Stanford University — Palo Alto
- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center — San Francisco
- Children Hospital of Colorado — Aurora
- AFLAC Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Egle — Atlanta
- University of Chicago, Comer Children's Hospital — Chicago
- Children's Hospital Boston — Boston
- C.S Mott Children's Hospital — Ann Arbor
- … and 8 more centers
Canada · 1 center
- Hospital for Sick Children — Toronto
Identifiers
NCT: NCT01587300 · N2004-05