s9007, study of bone marrow and blood samples from patients with leukemia or other hematopoietic cancers

Conditions: Leukemia; Myelodysplastic Syndromes; Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasms

Summary: rationale: studying samples of bone marrow and blood from patients with cancer in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about changes that occur in dna and identify biomarkers related to cancer. it may also help doctors predict how patients will respond to treatment. purpose: this research study is looking at bone marrow and blood samples from patients with leukemia or other hematopoietic cancers.

primary objective: \* maintain and expand a database of cytogenetic information on leukemia patients. other objectives as funding permits: * determine the frequency and prognostic significance of cytogenetic abnormalities in bone marrow or peripheral blood cells in patients with leukemia prior to treatment and at various times during treatment undergoing treatment on a companion clinical trial. * correlate the presence of cytogenetic features with clinical, pathophysiological, cellular, and molecular characteristics in these patients. * provide quality control for all southwest oncology group cytogenetic data. outline: bone marrow and/or peripheral blood samples from patients on specific treatment protocols for leukemia are analyzed for cytogenetic abnormalities. samples from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (cll) are analyzed for trisomy 12 by fluorescence in situ hybridization and conventional cytogenetics. projected accrual: approximately 2,500 patients (1,200 with first-line acute myeloid leukemia \[aml\], 500 with first-line acute lymphoblastic leukemia \[all\], 200 with relapsed aml, 125 with chronic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia \[cml\], 100 with accelerated phase or blastic phase cml, 250 with hairy cell leukemia, and 125 with relapsed all or cll) will be accrued for this study within 5 years.

Eligibility criteria:
disease characteristics: * registered on one of the following southwest oncology group treatment protocols: * swog-8326, swog-8600, swog-8612, swog-9034, swog-9108, or any new leukemia protocol approved as of 1990 patient characteristics: * not specified prior concurrent therapy: * see disease characteristics

Keywords: untreated adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia accelerated phase chronic myelogenous leukemia acute undifferentiated leukemia adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission adult acute myeloid leukemia in remission adult acute myeloid leukemia with 11q23 (mll) abnormalities adult acute myeloid leukemia with inv(16)(p13;q22) adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(15;17)(q22;q12) adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(16;16)(p13;q22) adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(8;21)(q22;q22) atypical chronic myeloid leukemia, bcr-abl1 negative blastic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission childhood acute myeloid leukemia in remission childhood chronic myelogenous leukemia chronic myelomonocytic leukemia chronic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia mast cell leukemia meningeal chronic myelogenous leukemia progressive hairy cell leukemia, initial treatment prolymphocytic leukemia recurrent adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia recurrent adult acute myeloid leukemia recurrent childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia recurrent childhood acute myeloid leukemia refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia refractory hairy cell leukemia relapsing chronic myelogenous leukemia secondary acute myeloid leukemia stage i chronic lymphocytic leukemia stage ii chronic lymphocytic leukemia stage iii chronic lymphocytic leukemia stage iv chronic lymphocytic leukemia t-cell large granular lymphocyte leukemia untreated adult acute myeloid leukemia untreated childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia untreated childhood acute myeloid leukemia and other myeloid malignancies untreated hairy cell leukemia childhood myelodysplastic syndromes de novo myelodysplastic syndromes previously treated myelodysplastic syndromes secondary myelodysplastic syndromes myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm, unclassifiable myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms