Ancillary Laboratory Protocol For the Collection of Diagnostic Material On Patients Considered For ECOG Treatment Trials For Leukemia Or Related Hematologic Disorders
Ancillary Laboratory Protocol For the Collection of Diagnostic Material On Patients Considered For ECOG Treatment Trials For Leukemia Or Related Hematologic Disorders
RATIONALE: Collecting and storing samples of blood and bone marrow from patients with cancer to study in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about diagnosing cancer and determine a patient's eligibility for a treatment clinical trial. It may also help the study of cancer in the future.
PURPOSE: This laboratory study is collecting tissue samples from patients with leukemia or other blood disorders who are planning to enroll in an ECOG leukemia treatment clinical trial.
OBJECTIVES:
OUTLINE: This is a cohort, multicenter study.
Patients submit bone marrow and/or blood samples. The samples are studied to determine patients' eligibility for ECOG leukemia treatment clinical trials. Samples may be stored for future correlative studies related to ECOG treatment clinical trials.
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
Candidate for enrollment on an ECOG treatment clinical trial for acute or chronic leukemia
Chosen ECOG treatment clinical trial must be active and accruing
Patient may be concurrently enrolled on this laboratory study and a treatment clinical trial if immediate treatment is medically necessary
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
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