National Study of Adrenal Tumours
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: Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma (PPGL), Adrenocorticol Cancer (ACC), Adrenal Tumours. Basic parameters: from 18 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 Kingdom
- 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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Overview
This is a study putting together large numbers of patients with or without a hereditary risk of adrenal tumours including tumours such as adrenocortical carcinoma and phaeochromocytoma/paraganglioma. The purpose is to answer questions about the survival of patients with these rare tumours and to do this, we will collect information on diagnosis and management of these tumours. This data will be best assessed by combing these rare cases at a national level recruiting from centres throughout UK and Ireland. The information will be confidential and stored in a secure platform. Patients will be approached for consent to gather their data by their local consultants and patients will have the choice to participate or decline participation, which will not affect their standard of care treatment.
Primary outcome measures
- review outcome data and calculate median overall survival for patients with metastatic pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma (PPGL) and adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) using existing standard of are therapies over the past 10 years [Time frame: 10 years]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Patients with a confirmed diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma or paraganglioma or adrenocortical tumour based on histology and or biochemical testing including plasma or urine metanephrine's or a urine steroid profile and confirmatory imaging tests or patients with a confirmed pathogenic variant in a known PPGL predisposition gene
- Patient is willing and able to give informed consent for the participation in the study.
- Male or female, and over the age of 18.
- Patient, in the investigator's opinion, is able and willing to comply with all the study requirements.
- Patients held on local hospital audit notes who have had a diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma or paraganglioma or adrenocortical tumour based on histology and or biochemical testing including plasma or urine metanephrine's or a urine steroid profile and confirmatory imaging tests or patients with a confirmed pathogenic variant in a known PPGL predisposition gene who are now deceased and have been deceased prior to the start of the study.
Exclusion criteria
- Alive patients unable to give informed consent will not be recruited
- Patients with an unconfirmed diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma or paraganglioma or adrenocortical tumour based on histology and or biochemical testing including plasma or urine metanephrine's or a urine steroid profile and confirmatory imaging tests or patients with unconfirmed pathogenic variant in a known PPGL predisposition gene
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
- Cohort
Study locations
United Kingdom · 1 center
- Cambridge NHS — Cambridge
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06870396 · NSAT2024.01