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RATIONALE: Diagnostic procedures may improve the ability to detect the presence or recurrence of disease.

PURPOSE: Diagnostic trial to detect melanoma markers in the lymph nodes or peripheral blood of patients who have melanoma.


Clinical Trial Description

OBJECTIVES:

- Determine the feasibility of performing reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for five different tumor antigen genes using lymph node samples or peripheral blood from patients with melanoma.

- Determine the ability of PCR-positive lymph nodes or peripheral blood to predict relapse of disease in these patients.

- Determine the correlation of positive PCR results from peripheral blood with disease stage.

OUTLINE: Lymph node biopsies or peripheral blood are obtained from patients. These specimens are examined by nested reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and analyzed for various tumor antigens.

Patients may choose to be told the results of this testing, but the results do not influence or change the planned therapy. Brief counseling is required to discuss the results and their potential implications.

Patients are followed for at least 2 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 30 patients for the lymph node portion and 80 patients (20 per stage of disease) for the peripheral blood portion will be accrued for this study within 3 years. ;


Study Design

Endpoint Classification: Safety Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Diagnostic


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NCT number NCT00004153
Study type Interventional
Source University of Chicago
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date June 1998
Completion date January 2005

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