Tissue Sample Collection From Patients With Soft Tissue Sarcoma of the Arms, Hands, Legs, or Feet Treated on Clinial Trial CRUK-VORTEX
Summary
RATIONALE: Collecting and storing samples of tumor tissue from patients with soft tissue sarcoma to test in the laboratory may help the study of cancer in the future.
PURPOSE: This laboratory is collecting tissue samples from patients with soft tissue sarcoma of the arms, hands, legs, or feet treated on clinical trial CRUK-VORTEX.
Description
OBJECTIVES:
- Determine early in the course of treatment which patients treated on clinical trial CRUK-VORTEX have an increased likelihood of distant metastases so as to highlight individuals who might benefit from early adjuvant systemic therapy.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.
Tumour and normal tissue samples will be taken at the time of surgery during treatment on clinical trial CRUK-VORTEXand preserved for future microarray analyses. Tissue microarrays will be produced from both tumor and normal tissues. Blood samples will be collected for future DNA analysis.
Study Design
N/A
Conditions
Sarcoma
Intervention
microarray analysis, molecular diagnostic method, biologic sample preservation procedure
Location
Royal Orthopedic Hospital NHS Trust
Birmingham
England
United Kingdom
B31 2AP
Status
Recruiting
Source
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Results (where available)
Links
- Source: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00900211
- Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on July 15, 2010
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Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-assisted Laser Desorption-ionization
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