WT1 for the Detection of Minimal Residual Disease

Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title: Detection of Minimal Residual Disease in Newly Diagnosed Patients With Leukemia and Those Who Undergo a Bone Marrow Transplant Using the Wilms Tumor Suppressor Gene (WT1) as a Marker By RT-PCR

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if WT1 is an adequate measurement of minimal residual disease in leukemic patients.

Clinical Trial Description

Patients with acute Leukemia may have a large number of leukemic cells at the time that leukemia is evident clinically. At the time that we determine that a patient is in complete remission (CR) the patient may still have leukemic cells present in smaller quantities. One of the most important factors in the successful treatment of patients with leukemia is the ability to determine if the eradication of leukemia has been achieved. The determination of Minimal Residual Disease may be important in the determination of the therapy that a given patient will receive as determined by the level of residual disease.

WT1 gene function and expression. The WT1 gene is a candidate gene for Wilms tumor, which is thought to arise as a result from inactivation of both alleles of the WT1 gene located at chromosome 11p13. The WT1 gene has been considered a tumor suppressor gene because intragenic deletions or mutations are found in tumors, germline mutations have been found in-patients with leukemia, and mediates growth suppression of Wilms tumor cells expressing a WT1 splicing variant. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cancer
• Leukemia
• Neoplasm, Residual

• NCT number: NCT00179829
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Start date: February 1999
• Completion date: April 2006