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Brief Title: Tissue Collection for Drug Screening and Bioanalysis
Official Title: Tissue Collection for Drug Screening and Bioanalysis
Study ID: NCT04852354
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to improve upon the knowledge currently available about pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors by further examining biological samples from pediatric patients with tumors undergoing surgery.
Detailed Description: The goal of this project is to enable the acquisition of tissue available for research with the prospect of enabling the development of new therapeutic avenues for patients diagnosed with cancer in the central nervous system. During pediatric patients' (with a CNS tumor) routine operative procedure, if extra tissue deemed unnecessary for diagnostic or clinical purposes is available, selected samples will undergo DNA and/or RNA extraction and integrity analysis, whole genome and RNA sequencing, DNA and RNA methylome analyses, proteomic analysis, immunoprofiling, and primary culturing of the tumor cells. These cultures may then be used for drug screenings and to create patient-derived xenografts, or for comparisons between tumor and non-tumor patients. Other biological samples may be collected. Additionally, saliva samples may be obtained from the parents of pediatric patients with CNS tumors, and biological samples may be collected from pediatric patients without a CNS tumor who are undergoing a neurological procedure. These samples may be used for comparison with samples from patients with CNS tumors.
Minimum Age:
Eligible Ages: CHILD, ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: Yes
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States
Name: Jeffrey Greenfield, M.D.
Affiliation: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR