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MesotheliomaNCT01590472

Do Your Genes Put You at a Higher Risk of Developing Mesothelioma

An observational study of Mesothelioma, run by Wake Forest University at 6 sites in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

The purpose of this research study is to investigate the possibility that a person's genes put a person at a higher risk of developing mesothelioma. The investigators will examine genes from DNA (genetic material) isolated from blood. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Mesothelioma
How many people
69 participants
Where
6 sitesUnited States
Study dates
Jun 2011to Dec 2015
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Study population: Subjects will be recruited from the clinics and in patient wards of the academic medical centers noted as collaborators.

Who may be able to join

  • Subjects able to provide informed consent who suffer from mesothelioma

Who cannot join

  • Inability to provide informed consent
  • Absence of mesothelioma in self

Trial locations and contacts

6 sites in 1 country.

6 sites in 1 country

United States6 sites

  • Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, Maryland, 21287

  • New York University School of Medicine

    New York, New York, 10016

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    New York, New York, 10065

  • University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104

  • Mayo Clinic

    Rochester, Minnesota, 55905

  • Wake Forest University Health Sciences

    Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27157

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About this study

Official title: Consortium for the Sharing of Germ Line DNA and Tissue From Subjects With Mesothelioma

The purpose of this research study is to investigate the possibility that a person's genes put a person at a higher risk of developing mesothelioma. The investigators will examine genes from DNA (genetic material) isolated from blood. This study will also examine the impact of environmental and work exposures and family history of common cancers on the development of mesothelioma. The genetic markers in this study will basically identify how a person's body processes frequently encountered environmental pollutants and will not tell about chromosomes, specific diseases, or other potential health problems.

Read the detailed description

Mesothelioma is a cancer that develops from serosal surfaces usually in response to prior asbestos exposure. A history of asbestos exposure can be elicited in more than 80% of mesothelioma victims. However, asbestos exposure alone is not sufficient to cause the development of mesothelioma. Nearly 27 million individuals in the US, were exposed to asbestos in the work place between 1940 and 1979 but just 3,000 new cases of mesothelioma are diagnosed each year. Therefore, the investigators hypothesis is that genetic variation in addition to asbestos exposure, and host factors contribute to the development of mesothelioma. It is estimated, based on the investigators preliminary studies, that a population in excess of 1,000 subjects with mesothelioma is required to perform a valid GWAS.

Therefore a multicenter approach is necessary to collect data and DNA on sufficient numbers with mesothelioma to adequately evaluate genetic risk. It is the aim of this proposal to develop a consortium of mesothelioma investigators to share phenotypic data and DNA samples and to perform genome wide association scanning (GWAS).

Conditions
Mesothelioma
Keywords
Genetics of Mesothelioma, Mesothelioma Consortium, GWAS, Asbestos
Medical subject headings
Mesothelioma

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

Study groups in NCT01590472
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
MesotheliomaIndividuals who have been diagnosed with mesothelioma

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Creation of a consortium of investigators (6 sites) for collection of blood for germline DNA and demographic information from 1000 mesothelioma subjects.

    Demographic variables that will be collected include; date of birth, gender, age at first exposure to asbestos, type of exposure (occupational or bystander), family health history, personal past medical history, smoking history, age at diagnosis, latency, tumor location and cell type.

    Measured: Participants will be seen on one occasion lasting 30-60 min to draw blood and elicit demographic information. It will require up to 2 years to enroll 1000 subjects with mesothelioma from the various sites.

Secondary outcomes (1)

  1. GWAS will be performed on the DNA from the 1000 subjects with mesothelioma and compared with 1000 age and asbestos exposure matched controls free of past personal history and family history of cancer.

    Given the significant risk for cancers other than the index mesothelioma in both subjects and their 1st degree relative (nearly 3 fold for sibs, parents and the mesothelioma subjects themselves and 7 fold for their children), the goal is to identify SNPs involved with mesothelioma and other common cancer susceptibility.

    Measured: It will take up to 1 year, after the collection of the 1000 mesothelioma samples, to perform and analyze the GWAS.

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted3 May 2012 (estimated)
  2. Study startJun 2011
  3. Primary completionDec 2014
  4. Study completionDec 2015

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Case only
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Enrolment
69 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01590472
Sponsor's protocol ID
GTS 36076 MARF
Status last verified
May 2017
First submitted
23 Apr 2012
Last updated
7 Nov 2017
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No

Publications

  • Bertazzi PA. Descriptive epidemiology of malignant mesothelioma. Med Lav. 2005 Jul-Aug;96(4):287-303.

    PubMed 16457426

  • Paul S, Neragi-Miandoab S, Jaklitsch MT. Preoperative assessment and therapeutic options for patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma. Thorac Surg Clin. 2004 Nov;14(4):505-16, ix. doi: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2004.06.008.

    PubMed 15559057

  • Xu L, Flynn BJ, Ungar S, Pass HI, Linnainmaa K, Mattson K, Gerwin BI. Asbestos induction of extended lifespan in normal human mesothelial cells: interindividual susceptibility and SV40 T antigen. Carcinogenesis. 1999 May;20(5):773-83. doi: 10.1093/carcin/20.5.773.

    PubMed 10334193

  • Bocchetta M, Di Resta I, Powers A, Fresco R, Tosolini A, Testa JR, Pass HI, Rizzo P, Carbone M. Human mesothelial cells are unusually susceptible to simian virus 40-mediated transformation and asbestos cocarcinogenicity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 Aug 29;97(18):10214-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.170207097.

    PubMed 10954737

  • Kamp DW, Weitzman SA. Asbestosis: clinical spectrum and pathogenic mechanisms. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1997 Jan;214(1):12-26. doi: 10.3181/00379727-214-44065.

    PubMed 9012357

  • Sluis-Cremer GK. Asbestos disease at low exposures after long residence times. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1991 Dec 31;643:182-93. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1991.tb24461.x. No abstract available.

    PubMed 1809131

  • Neragi-Miandoab S. Multimodality approach in management of malignant pleural mesothelioma. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2006 Jan;29(1):14-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2005.10.008. Epub 2005 Dec 15.

    PubMed 16343925

  • Berry G, Wagner JC. Effect of age at inoculation of asbestos on occurrence of mesotheliomas in rats. Int J Cancer. 1976 Apr 15;17(4):477-83. doi: 10.1002/ijc.2910170410.

    PubMed 1279040

  • Becklake MR, Toyota B, Stewart M, Hanson R, Hanley J. Lung structure as a risk factor in adverse pulmonary responses to asbestos exposure. A case-referent study in Quebec chrysotile miners and millers. Am Rev Respir Dis. 1983 Sep;128(3):385-8. doi: 10.1164/arrd.1983.128.3.385.

    PubMed 6311060

  • Spirtas R, Heineman EF, Bernstein L, Beebe GW, Keehn RJ, Stark A, Harlow BL, Benichou J. Malignant mesothelioma: attributable risk of asbestos exposure. Occup Environ Med. 1994 Dec;51(12):804-11. doi: 10.1136/oem.51.12.804.

    PubMed 7849863

  • Baris YI, Sahin AA, Ozesmi M, Kerse I, Ozen E, Kolacan B, Altinors M, Goktepeli A. An outbreak of pleural mesothelioma and chronic fibrosing pleurisy in the village of Karain/Urgup in Anatolia. Thorax. 1978 Apr;33(2):181-92. doi: 10.1136/thx.33.2.181.

    PubMed 663877

  • Baris I, Simonato L, Artvinli M, Pooley F, Saracci R, Skidmore J, Wagner C. Epidemiological and environmental evidence of the health effects of exposure to erionite fibres: a four-year study in the Cappadocian region of Turkey. Int J Cancer. 1987 Jan 15;39(1):10-7. doi: 10.1002/ijc.2910390104.

    PubMed 3025107

  • Amundadottir LT, Sulem P, Gudmundsson J, Helgason A, Baker A, Agnarsson BA, Sigurdsson A, Benediktsdottir KR, Cazier JB, Sainz J, Jakobsdottir M, Kostic J, Magnusdottir DN, Ghosh S, Agnarsson K, Birgisdottir B, Le Roux L, Olafsdottir A, Blondal T, Andresdottir M, Gretarsdottir OS, Bergthorsson JT, Gudbjartsson D, Gylfason A, Thorleifsson G, Manolescu A, Kristjansson K, Geirsson G, Isaksson H, Douglas J, Johansson JE, Balter K, Wiklund F, Montie JE, Yu X, Suarez BK, Ober C, Cooney KA, Gronberg H, Catalona WJ, Einarsson GV, Barkardottir RB, Gulcher JR, Kong A, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stefansson K. A common variant associated with prostate cancer in European and African populations. Nat Genet. 2006 Jun;38(6):652-8. doi: 10.1038/ng1808. Epub 2006 May 7.

    PubMed 16682969

  • Freedman ML, Haiman CA, Patterson N, McDonald GJ, Tandon A, Waliszewska A, Penney K, Steen RG, Ardlie K, John EM, Oakley-Girvan I, Whittemore AS, Cooney KA, Ingles SA, Altshuler D, Henderson BE, Reich D. Admixture mapping identifies 8q24 as a prostate cancer risk locus in African-American men. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Sep 19;103(38):14068-73. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0605832103. Epub 2006 Aug 31.

    PubMed 16945910

  • Rai AJ, Flores RM, Mathew A, Gonzalez-Espinoza R, Bott M, Ladanyi M, Rusch V, Fleisher M. Soluble mesothelin related peptides (SMRP) and osteopontin as protein biomarkers for malignant mesothelioma: analytical validation of ELISA based assays and characterization at mRNA and protein levels. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2010 Feb;48(2):271-8. doi: 10.1515/CCLM.2010.066.

    PubMed 20131968

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Mesothelioma, run by Wake Forest University at 6 sites in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 7 Nov 2017. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 6 sites in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Creation of a consortium of investigators (6 sites) for collection of blood for germline DNA and demographic information from 1000 mesothelioma subjects. (time frame: Participants will be seen on one occasion lasting 30-60 min to draw blood and elicit demographic information. It will require up to 2 years to enroll 1000 subjects with mesothelioma from the various sites.). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT01590472, which also lists 35 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 7 Nov 2017.

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