Study of Metabolic Syndrome in Young Patients Who Are Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Survivors and Their Healthy Siblings

Completed

Conditions studied: Leukemia

In brief

RATIONALE: Gathering information about metabolic syndrome from young patients who have survived acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) may help doctors learn more about the disease. PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the metabolic syndrome in young patients who have survived acute lymphoblastic leukemia and in healthy sibling volunteers.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00897078

Run by

Vanderbilt University

People needed

39

Starts

2009-01-01

Expected to finish

2011-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-06-13

Who can join

Age: 8 and older, up to 21. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
• Meets one of the following eligibility criteria:
• Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia survivor
• Less than 22 years old at diagnosis
• Treated from 1990-2007 at one of the following locations:
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and/or Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, WA
• Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville, TN
• Meets 1 of the following treatment criteria:
• Completed conventional therapy ≥ 11 months ago and in first complete remission
• Received an allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation ≥ 11 months ago and in complete remission
• No evidence of recurrent disease
• Healthy volunteer
• Full sibling of enrolled cancer survivor
• Age 8-21 (if more than 1 eligible sibling, sibling of closest age is preferred)
• No history of cancer
• PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
• Able to speak, read, and write English
• PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
• See Disease Characteristics
• No active treatment for graft-vs-host disease

You may not qualify if…

• Lack of ability to speak, read, and write English
• Active treatment for graft versus host disease

Where it is running

• Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center - Cool Springs — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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