OBJECTIVES:
- Collect human tumor tissue and other biological specimens (blood, serum, and bone marrow) from patients with rhabdomyosarcoma or non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcoma diagnosed and/or treated at a Children's Oncology Group (COG) member institution.
- Provide a repository for storage of tissue and other biological specimens collected by COG investigators from these patients.
- Make these specimens available for approved projects by laboratory-based investigators.
- Collect clinical data on these patients who are not being treated on a COG therapeutic study.
- Define and compare the clinical features of patient subgroups with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma whose tumors carry the t(2;13), t(1;13) or neither translocation.
- Investigate the relationship between evidence of submicroscopic disease and response rate (CR/PR), failure-free survival, and survival of patients with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, as determined by positive or negative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay for the t(2:13) and t(1:13) on peripheral blood and bone marrow specimens obtained at diagnosis.
- Compare the clinical, cytogenetic, and molecular biologic features of patient subgroups with anaplastic rhabdomyosarcoma and other subtypes of rhabdomyosarcoma.
OUTLINE: Surgical tissue, bone marrow, and blood specimens are collected at diagnosis (initial or relapse) and, if applicable, at the development of a second primary tumor. Specimens are used for research purposes. A certificate of confidentiality protecting the identity of research participants in this project has been issued by the National Cancer Institute.
Patients who are not enrolled on a Children's Oncology Group treatment trial are followed every 6 months for at least 10 years or until disease progression or development of a second malignancy.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: No projected accrual limit will apply to this study.
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of 1 of the following:
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcoma
- Chordoma
- Desmoid fibromatosis
- Desmoplastic round cell tumors
- Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of the liver
- Unclassified soft tissue sarcoma that is too undifferentiated to be placed in a specific pathologic category in the WHO classification (often called "undifferentiated soft tissue sarcoma" or "soft tissue sarcoma NOS")
- Other soft tissue neoplasms, excluding benign tumors
- Must have pathological specimens of tumor-containing tissue or bone marrow (beyond that needed by the institution for diagnosis) available for study
- No malignant rhabdoid tumor, Ewing sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumor, or osteogenic sarcoma of bone
- No osteogenic sarcoma
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- Not specified
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- Not specified
Last updated: 11/22/2012
NCT ID: NCT00919269
IRB Number:990-99
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