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Brief Title: Cancer Driving Mutations in Endometriosis Lesions and Development of Progesterone Resistance
Official Title: Prospective Clinical Study of the Relationship Between Cancer Driving Mutations Found in Endometriotic Implants and the Development of Progesterone Resistance
Study ID: NCT03756480
Brief Summary: This study will test the hypothesis that the molecular changes present in ectopic endometriosis lesions correlate with progesterone-resistant disease (using the criteria defined in this study) and are present in matched eutopic endometrium.
Detailed Description: Tissues from 100 patients with endometriosis will be analyzed with droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) targeted sequencing and responders (n=50) will be compared to non-responders (n=50) after controlling confounding factors. From a subset of the 100 cases, whole exome sequencing (WES) and Methylation-Specific PCR (MSP)-based methylation profiling on microdissected epithelium and stroma will be performed in matched eutopic and ectopic tissues from 20 patients with known cancer-associated mutations or 20 controls.
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT
Sex: FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers: No
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Name: James Segars, MD, FACOG
Affiliation: Professor
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR