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CompletedNCT00898261

Gene Expression in Tissue From Patients With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Genetic Risk Classes in Adult Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
137 (actual)
Sponsor
ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group · Network
Sex
All
Age
15 Years – 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

RATIONALE: Studying the genes expressed in samples of tumor tissue from patients with cancer may help doctors identify biomarkers related to cancer. PURPOSE: This laboratory study is looking at gene expression in tissue from patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia enrolled in clinical trial ECOG-2993.

Detailed description

OBJECTIVES: * Identify genes involved in specific biologic processes or molecular functions that contribute to the mechanisms by which the BCR/ABL tyrosine kinase induces a leukemic phenotype using RNA banked from patients with BCR/ABL-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) enrolled on ECOG-2993. * Compare patterns of mRNA expression of BCR/ABL fusion protein in patients with B-lineage ALL vs patients with ALL and no cytogenetic abnormalities enrolled on ECOG-2993. * Determine both shared and differing expression patterns in patients with BCR/ABL-positive and cytogenetically negative ALL with respect to achievement of complete remission and duration of disease-free and overall survival. OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Total RNA is isolated from stored tissue samples and integrity is verified by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). cDNA libraries are created from total RNA and gene expression is analyzed via microarray analysis. Genes of interest are further analyzed by flow cytometry and RT-PCR. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 137 patients will be accrued for this study.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
GENETICmicroarray analysis
GENETICreverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction
OTHERflow cytometry

Timeline

Start date
2007-10-26
Primary completion
2012-07-19
Completion
2012-07-19
First posted
2009-05-12
Last updated
2017-05-19

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00898261. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.