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Trial Title: Study of Genes and the Environment in Patients With Ovarian Cancer in the East Anglia, Oxford, Trent, or West Midlands Regions of the United Kingdom

NCT ID: NCT00757263

Condition: Ovarian Cancer

Conditions: Official terms:
Ovarian Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial

Conditions: Keywords:
ovarian epithelial cancer
ovarian germ cell tumor
ovarian sarcoma
ovarian stromal cancer

Study type: Observational

Overall status: Unknown status

Intervention:

Intervention type: Genetic
Intervention name: polymorphism analysis

Intervention type: Other
Intervention name: laboratory biomarker analysis

Intervention type: Other
Intervention name: questionnaire administration

Summary: RATIONALE: Studying samples of blood from patients with cancer in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about changes that occur in DNA and identify biomarkers related to cancer. PURPOSE: This study is looking at genetic susceptibility for cancer and interactions between genes and the environment in patients with ovarian cancer.

Detailed description: OBJECTIVES: - To obtain epidemiological information and biological material on a population-based series of ovarian cases. - To define the proportion of ovarian cancer incidence attributable to mutations in known predisposing genes (e.g., BRCA1 and BRCA2). - To determine the risk associated with predisposing mutations by examining the cancer risks in relatives of patients who are shown to be carriers. - To examine the effect of nongenetic risk factors in mutation carriers. - To determine the pathological and clinical characteristics of ovarian cancers occurring in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers as compared with that in noncarriers. - To establish whether mutations at other loci may predispose to ovarian cancer by comparing the frequency of alterations in ovarian cancer patients with that in cancer-free controls identified through the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC) study. OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients complete an epidemiological questionnaire. The questionnaire will request identifying information on the patient's first-degree relatives. Blood samples are collected from patients. DNA is extracted from these blood samples and from samples collected from cancer-free control participants in MREC-SEARCH-CONTROL as well as from additional controls through the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC) study (a population based study of diet and health based in Norfolk, East Anglia). DNA samples are analyzed for polymorphisms of low penetrance cancer susceptibility genes. In addition to the ovarian cancer patients recruited for this study, patients with breast, endometrial, prostate, colorectal, bladder, kidney, pancreatic, brain and esophageal cancer, malignant melanoma, and lymphoma cancer are recruited in the following related clinical trials: MREC-SEARCH-BREAST, MREC-SEARCH-ENDOMETRIAL, MREC-SEARCH-PROSTATE, MREC-SEARCH-COLORECTAL, and MREC-SEARCH-CANCER.

Criteria for eligibility:
Criteria:
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: - Diagnosis of ovarian cancer within the past 5 years - Identified through the East Anglia, Stoke and West Midlands Cancer Registries serving any of the following geographic regions of the United Kingdom: - East Anglia - Oxford - Trent - West Midlands PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: - Identified by the patient's general practitioner as fit to contact for this study - No serious mental illness or retardation PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: - Not specified

Gender: All

Minimum age: 18 Years

Maximum age: 74 Years

Healthy volunteers: No

Locations:

Facility:
Name: University of Cambridge Cancer Research UK

Address:
City: Cambridge
Zip: CB1 8RN
Country: United Kingdom

Status: Recruiting

Contact:
Last name: Contact Person

Phone: 44-122-374-0166
Email: paul.pharoah@srl.cam.ac.uk

Start date: February 2008

Lead sponsor:
Agency: Cancer Research UK
Agency class: Other

Source: National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Record processing date: ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on November 12, 2024

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov page: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00757263

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