SWOG-8947 Collecting and Storing Blood Samples From Patients With Previously Untreated Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

SWOG Cancer Research Network

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lymphoma

Treatments: Other: biologic sample preservation procedure

Study type: Observational

Funder types: NETWORK; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01000558

SWOG-8947 (Other Identifier)

CDR0000390329

U10CA032102 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

RATIONALE: Collecting and storing samples of blood from patients with cancer to test in the laboratory may help the study of cancer in the future.

PURPOSE: This research study is collecting and storing blood samples from patients with previously untreated non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Full description

OBJECTIVES:

• To establish a central lymphoma serum repository that will serve as a resource to provide specimens for current and future scientific studies.
• To utilize the Southwest Oncology Group clinical database to perform clinicopathologic correlations with the results of those studies.

OUTLINE: Serum is collected and stored for future correlative studies.

Enrollment: 939 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Diagnosis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma

  • Previously untreated disease
  • Patients must meet the eligibility criteria and be registered to a currently active Southwest Oncology Group-coordinated treatment protocol for previously untreated non-Hodgkin lymphoma

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

• Not specified

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

• See Disease Characteristics