Clinical trial NCT00015587: Molecular Epidemiology of Childhood Leukemia (Aka The California Childhood Leukemia Study)
Official title: Chemical Exposures and Leukemia Risks and Childhood Leukemia and Environmental Exposure
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Leukemia
Acute Myelocytic Leukemia
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
Keywords: Molecular Epidemiology
Case Control
Lead sponsor: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Sponsor class: NIH
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First posted: 2001-04-25
Enrollment: 3523
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 1
Maximum age (years): 14
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Children diagnosed with leukemia and matched controls

Brief summary: This study is a case-control study investigating the causes of childhood leukemia in Northern California. The overall purpose of this epidemiologic study is to find specific genetic or environmental factors that may increase the risk of leukemia in children. The study is being conducted by Patricia Buffler, PhD at the School of Public Health - University of California Berkeley in collaboration with the California Department of Health Services and 16 hospitals located throughout the state of California. The study began in 1995 and will continue to 2014.

Detailed description: This study is a case-control study of incident childhood leukemia (all subtypes) diagnosed since mid-1995. Children newly diagnosed with leukemia are enrolled in the study. Criteria for inclusion in the study are: under 15 years of age, no prior cancer diagnosis, residency in the state of California at the time of diagnosis, and availability of an English or Spanish speaking parent or guardian. Pre-treatment biological specimens, including bone marrow and peripheral blood, are obtained for analysis in the UCB lab of Dr M. Smith. The lab will use Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) to detect chromosome specific aneuploidy and translocations. A number of chromosomal translocations, including t(9;22) and t(8;21), are known to be centrally involved in the development of childhood leukemia. Molecular characterization of the cases with translocations may provide insight into the timing of critical exposures and the nature of the etiological agent involved.

One comparison subject (control) is recruited for each consenting case. For each case, four potential controls are randomly selected from California birth certificate files and matched on date of birth, gender, mother's race, parental Hispanicity, and county of residence. One of the four birth certificate controls is randomly selected to be recruited to participate in the study.

An in-depth personal interview asks a variety of questions, including: residential history; occupational and household exposure histories; mothers' reproductive history; events during index pregnancy and delivery; family history of illness; child's health and vaccination history, contact with other children; maternal and child exposure to cigarette smoke during pregnancy and since birth; maternal and child history of x-rays.

Saliva specimens are obtained from both cases and controls and their biological mothers. The saliva samples are sent to the study office and processed in the Genetic Epidemiology lab at UC Berkeley. DNA from cases and controls will be analyzed by polymerase chain reaction for genetic polymorphisms. Genetic polymorphisms will be examined in two glutathione transferase genes, M1 and Tl. Case samples of peripheral blood, bone marrow, and archived newborn blood will be also used to detect N-ras mutation.

Three tiers of an exposure assessment are being implemented. Tier 1 enrolls and interviews cases and controls seeking to identify risk factors, including residential and occupational chemical exposures. In Tier 2, cases and birth certificate controls that have not changed residence based on specific criteria are part of a reliability study, which seeks to determine if self-reported chemicals used at the time of interview are found in the home during a visual survey several months after interview. Tier 3 aims to document the potential for household exposures by sampling dust on the floor surfaces. The objective is to identify if there are differences in concentrations of pesticides, metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, cotinine, polychorinated biphenyls, and ethylenethiourea in the homes of cases and controls. Further, a case-case analysis will identify if cases with chromosomal translocations of interest live in homes with higher concentrations of target compounds than cases that do not have such translocations. These analyses will determine whether leukemic children with common genetic changes experience common exposures and whether these genetic changes have approximately the same temporal occurrence. Finally, we will evaluate whether children with and without leukemia differ with respect to susceptibility.

Eligibility criteria: Cases must be children ages 0-14 newly diagnosed with leukemia (any type) at one of participating hospitals. They must live in the state of California at diagnosis, never have been diagnosed with a prior cancer and have a parent or guardian that speaks English or Spanish.

Controls are matched on the case child's DOB, gender, mother's race, parent's Hispanicity. In order to be eligible, they must have no history of cancer, have a parent or guardian that speaks English or Spanish and they must live in the state of California.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Outcome of study
timeFrame: duration of study
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Berkeley
country: United States
facility: University of California, School of Public Health, Childhood Leukemia Study
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health
name: Catherine Metayer, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
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citation: Whitehead T, Metayer C, Gunier RB, Ward MH, Nishioka MG, Buffler P, Rappaport SM. Determinants of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon levels in house dust. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2011 Mar-Apr;21(2):123-32. doi: 10.1038/jes.2009.68. Epub 2009 Dec 30.
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citation: Diakos C, Zhong S, Xiao Y, Zhou M, Vasconcelos GM, Krapf G, Yeh RF, Zheng S, Kang M, Wiencke JK, Pombo-de-Oliveira MS, Panzer-Grumayer R, Wiemels JL. TEL-AML1 regulation of survivin and apoptosis via miRNA-494 and miRNA-320a. Blood. 2010 Dec 2;116(23):4885-93. doi: 10.1182/blood-2009-02-206706. Epub 2010 Aug 31.
citation: Urayama KY, Buffler PA, Gallagher ER, Ayoob JM, Ma X. A meta-analysis of the association between day-care attendance and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Int J Epidemiol. 2010 Jun;39(3):718-32. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyp378. Epub 2010 Jan 27.
citation: Wiemels JL, Kang M, Chang JS, Zheng L, Kouyoumji C, Zhang L, Smith MT, Scelo G, Metayer C, Buffler P, Wiencke JK. Backtracking RAS mutations in high hyperdiploid childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2010 Oct 15;45(3):186-91. doi: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2010.07.007. Epub 2010 Aug 5.
citation: Chang JS, Zhou M, Buffler PA, Chokkalingam AP, Metayer C, Wiemels JL. Profound deficit of IL10 at birth in children who develop childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Aug;20(8):1736-40. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0162. Epub 2011 Jun 8.
citation: Francis SS, Selvin S, Yang W, Buffler PA, Wiemels JL. Unusual space-time patterning of the Fallon, Nevada leukemia cluster: Evidence of an infectious etiology. Chem Biol Interact. 2012 Apr 5;196(3):102-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cbi.2011.02.019. Epub 2011 Feb 23.
citation: Slusky DA, Metayer C, Aldrich MC, Ward MH, Lea CS, Selvin S, Buffler PA. Reliability of maternal-reports regarding the use of household pesticides: experience from a case-control study of childhood leukemia. Cancer Epidemiol. 2012 Aug;36(4):375-80. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2011.12.009. Epub 2012 Jan 23.
citation: Slusky DA, Mezei G, Metayer C, Selvin S, Von Behren J, Buffler PA. Comparison of racial differences in childhood cancer risk in case-control studies and population-based cancer registries. Cancer Epidemiol. 2012 Feb;36(1):36-44. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2011.05.005. Epub 2011 Oct 21.
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