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Study of Tumor Samples in Patients Undergoing Radiation Therapy or Surgery For Primary Melanoma of the Eye

NCT00952939 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2015-01-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

RATIONALE: Studying samples of tumor tissue from patients with cancer in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about changes that occur in DNA and identify biomarkers related to cancer.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying tumor samples in patients undergoing surgery or radiation therapy for primary melanoma of the eye.

Conditions

  • Intraocular Melanoma

Interventions

GENETIC

fluorescence in situ hybridization

At time of surgery

OTHER

laboratory biomarker analysis

At time of surgery

PROCEDURE

fine-needle aspiration

At time of surgery

PROCEDURE

therapeutic conventional surgery

At time of surgery

OTHER

Questionnaires

The MINI (a structured psychiatric interview) will be administered to all patients that had a pre or post-operative HADS score for suggestive or probable depression or anxiety. A semi-structured interview would be administered to those patients who had some or full decision regret pre-operatively. After completion of the interview, the MINI, a structured psychiatric interview, will be administered.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Arun D. Singh, MD · Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-03-31
Primary Completion
2012-09-30
Completion
2014-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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