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CompletedNCT00897520

Biomarkers in Patients With High-Risk Melanoma Receiving High-Dose Interferon Therapy

PILOT-high Throughput-protein Profiling Analysis of Sera Collected From E1694 Patients Undergoing HDI (Arm B)

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
40 (actual)
Sponsor
ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group · Network
Sex
All
Age
120 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

RATIONALE: Studying samples of blood from patients with cancer in the laboratory may help doctors identify biomarkers related to cancer and predict how patients will respond to treatment. PURPOSE: This research study is looking at biomarkers in patients with high-risk melanoma receiving high-dose interferon therapy.

Detailed description

OBJECTIVES: * To screen serum specimens using a high throughput protein profiling platform that tests for the highest number of known biomarkers (detectable by antibodies) that could be predictors of response to interferon treatment, autoimmunity, and disease outcome in patients with high-risk melanoma undergoing high-dose interferon (IFNa2b) therapy . * To compare soluble factors across all patients at each time point (baseline and during therapy). * To compare pre-therapy vs post-therapy serum samples from these patients. * To assess the kinetics of soluble factors' appearance, persistence, and disappearance during the 12 months of therapy. * To assess whether the amount of specific soluble factors in the pre-therapy sample is predictive of response independent of therapy. * To correlate statistically significant factors with S100 and autoimmunity in these patients. * To confirm the data obtained with the Luminex technology. OUTLINE: Patients are stratified according to survival (\< 2 years vs \> 5 years). Blood samples collected from patients enrolled in E-1694 are analyzed using high throughput protein profiling by ELISA to compare changes in levels of putative biomarkers of interferon alfa-2b, including cytokines and paired receptors, chemokines, cell adhesion molecules, metalloproteinases, angiogenic markers, growth factors, soluble receptors, signal transduction molecules, hormones, and other biomarkers of disease and dysregulated immune processes, at baseline and during therapy.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
BIOLOGICALrecombinant interferon alfa
GENETICproteomic profiling
OTHERimmunoenzyme technique
OTHERlaboratory biomarker analysis

Timeline

Start date
2008-01-14
Primary completion
2010-01-24
Completion
2010-01-24
First posted
2009-05-12
Last updated
2017-05-19

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00897520. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.