Clinical trial NCT06935864: Tissue Expression of Krüppel-Like Factors 4 and 7 in Bone Tumors
Official title: The Prognostic Value of Tissue Expression of Krüppel-Like Factors 4 and 7 in Bone Tumors
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Osteosarcoma in Children
Ewing Sarcoma of Bone or Soft Tissue
Keywords: Bone Tumor
Osteosarcoma
Ewing sarcoma
Lead sponsor: Ain Shams University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2025-04-20
Enrollment: 30
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 1
Maximum age (years): 39
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Children, adolescents, and young adults diagnosed with localized and metastatic both skeletal and extra-skeletal osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma

Brief summary: The current study is to assess the prognostic value of Krüppel-like factors 4 and 7 in bone tumors, and its role in the disease progression.

Detailed description: Krüppel-like factors are a group of proteins that engage in different cell functions including proliferation, apoptosis, autophagy, invasion, and migration, and have been discovered to play an important role in bone disease development.

Study Setting: Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit at Ain Shams University Children's Hospital.

* Type of Study: Prospective cohort.
* Study Period: 12 months.
* Study Population: Children, adolescents, and young adults diagnosed with localized and metastatic both skeletal and extra-skeletal osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma
* Sampling Method: Convenience
* The medical history by direct interview of participants or from the patients files with a focus on:

  * Symptoms such as pain, swelling, and fracture including duration, intensity, and timing of complaint.
  * Specific events for bone tumors include prior benign/malignant lesions, family history, and previous radiotherapy for a prior cancer.
  * Assessment of the adverse outcomes.
  * Treatment protocol, timing of local control, type of local surgical control, need for adjuvant or definitive radiation therapy.
* Examination carried out upon initial patients' presentation (collected from files in the historical group):

  * A full physical examination including weight and height, with calculation of body mass index (BMI) and surface area (SA).
  * Local examination with specific attention to the size, consistency of the swelling, its location and mobility, the relation of swelling to the involved bone, and the presence of regional/ local lymph nodes.
* Radiologic investigations at initial diagnosis, after induction chemotherapy, after local control, as well as at the end of therapy and every 3 months during 1st 2 years after therapy (collected from files in the historical group):

  * Conventional radiographs in two planes
  * Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the whole compartment with adjacent joints,
  * Computed tomography (CT) should be used only in the case of diagnostic problems or doubt, to visualize more clearly calcification, periosteal bone formation, or cortical destruction
  * Stage classification: positron emission tomography (PET)/CT using General Electric device number 5632.
* Laboratory assessment at presentation for cohort group (collected from files in the historical group)

  * Complete blood count (CBC)
  * Electrolytes including serum Calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, bicarbonate; creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, liver enzymes, and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH)
* Pathological methods:

  * Histopathological examination of H\&E-stained sections prepared from paraffin blocks at 4-5 um thickness.
  * Immunohistochemical staining of 4 um sections prepared from paraffin blocks using KLF factor (4 and 7); this will be done with automated immunostaining using the streptavidin-biotin technique.
  * Interpretation of the stained slides will be done using a semiquantitative score and the results will be statistically analyzed.
* Sample Size: 30 patients

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Age: children, young adolescents younger than 15 years, and young adults (15 to 39 years) Gender: Males and female. Histologically confirmed patients with skeletal or extra-skeletal OS or ES. Both localized and metastatic disease stages.

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients with second malignant bone sarcoma. Patients with benign bone tumors.

Primary outcomes:
measure: The prognostic value
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cairo
country: Egypt
facility: Ain Shams University
city: Cairo
country: Egypt
facility: Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams Research Institute- Clinical Research Center (MASRI-CRC)
Study officials:
affiliation: Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University
name: Fatma S E Ebeid
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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