Lay Description

The next generation of therapy for childhood cancers will be based upon in-depth molecular phenotyping that may facilitate the development of rational risk-adapted and target-based therapies. In order to support current and future molecularly-guided therapeutic trials and the basic science discovery efforts that will lead to more effective therapies, prevention, early detection and a reduction in early and late-onset toxicities, it is critical to implement universal, high-quality collection of annotated biospecimens from children with cancer. This protocol provides for the collection of biospecimens and accompanying demographic, epidemiologic, therapeutic, and outcome data from all children diagnosed with cancer at participating COG institutions, independent of the patient s enrollment on a therapeutic clinical trial. Through this approach, the correlation of phenotypic and genotypic or other omic data with the relevant outcomes at the individual, disease, and protocol levels will be ensured. Biospecimen requirements and handling may be disease specific and thus a detailed manual of procedures will provide disease specific information regarding sample collection and processing based on the clinical diagnosis.

Category

• Multiple Sites

IRB Number

20150870HU

NCT Number

ct.gov registration not required

Open to Enrollment

Yes