Collecting and Storing Blood and Brain Tumor Tissue Samples From Children With Brain Tumors

Completed

Conditions studied: Childhood Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor, Childhood Central Nervous System Germ Cell Tumor, Childhood Cerebral Anaplastic Astrocytoma, Childhood Cerebral Astrocytoma, Childhood Choroid Plexus Neoplasm, Childhood Craniopharyngioma, Childhood Grade I Meningioma, Childhood Grade II Meningioma, Childhood Grade III Meningioma, Childhood Infratentorial Ependymoma, Childhood Oligodendroglioma, Childhood Supratentorial Ependymoma, Ependymoma, Newly Diagnosed Childhood Ependymoma, Recurrent Childhood Cerebellar Astrocytoma, Recurrent Childhood Cerebral Astrocytoma, Recurrent Childhood Ependymoma, Recurrent Childhood Medulloblastoma, Recurrent Childhood Supratentorial Embryonal Tumor, Not Otherwise Specified, Recurrent Childhood Visual Pathway Glioma

In brief

The purpose of this study is to collect and store brain tissue samples and blood from children with brain cancer that will be tested in the laboratory. Collecting and storing samples of tumor tissue and blood from patients to test in the laboratory may help the study of cancer in the future.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00919750

Run by

Children's Oncology Group

People needed

1258

Starts

2004-02-16

Expected to finish

2018-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2018-07-16

Who can join

Age: any, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Diagnosis of brain tumor
• Previously treated at a Children?s Oncology Group (COG) institution
• Patients are eligible at time of diagnosis, second-look surgery, recurrence, or development of a second malignant neoplasm
• Must have brain tumor biological specimens derived from primary tumors of the CNS available for submission

Where it is running

• University of Alabama at Birmingham Cancer Center — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Phoenix Childrens Hospital — Phoenix, Arizona, United States
• Arkansas Children's Hospital — Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
• University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences — Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
• Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center — Downey, California, United States
• City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center — Duarte, California, United States
• Loma Linda University Medical Center — Loma Linda, California, United States
• Miller Children's and Women's Hospital Long Beach — Long Beach, California, United States
• Children's Hospital Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California, United States
• Cedars Sinai Medical Center — Los Angeles, California, United States
• Children's Hospital Central California — Madera, California, United States
• Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland — Oakland, California, United States
• Kaiser Permanente-Oakland — Oakland, California, United States
• Children's Hospital of Orange County — Orange, California, United States
• Sutter Medical Center Sacramento — Sacramento, California, United States
• University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center — Sacramento, California, United States
• Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego — San Diego, California, United States
• Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center — Torrance, California, United States
• Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children-Presbyterian Saint Luke's Medical Center — Denver, Colorado, United States
• Connecticut Children's Medical Center — Hartford, Connecticut, United States
• Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children — Wilmington, Delaware, United States
• MedStar Georgetown University Hospital — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
• Broward Health Medical Center — Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
• Lee Memorial Health System — Fort Myers, Florida, United States
• Children's Hospital of Alabama — Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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