Collaborative Advanced Stage Tissue Lung Cancer (CASTLE) Network
Because of the historically poor outcomes of lung cancer patients, suboptimal therapeutic
efficacy, and significant side effects of chemotherapy, and the need to choose more
efficacious treatment regimens, and patients most likely to benefit from them, there is a
need to predict a priori whether an individual patient's tumor will respond to a particular
therapeutic agent. However, virtually all lung cancer tumor samples available today are from
resection specimens so direct, intra-patient molecular-clinical therapy correlations are
impossible.
Without the critical mass of tissue and data necessary to identify optimal molecular targets
for lung cancer and drugs active against these targets, new discoveries that offer the only
hope of long-term survival for many lung cancer patients remain elusive.
This study facilitates the collection of biospecimens from advanced lung cancer patients and
routine determination of a panel of documented clinically significant biomarkers. In
addition, it will centrally integrate and standardize research tissue samples with
corresponding proteomic, genomic, molecular and clinical data across a multitude of
institutions and oncology networks
Observational
Time Perspective: Prospective
Collect, process, store, and distribute for peer-reviewed research studies tumor-related and normal biospecimens from advanced stage lung cancer patients
7 years
No
Leora Horn, MD
Principal Investigator
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
United States: Institutional Review Board
THO 09110
NCT01574300
November 2010
January 2017
Name | Location |
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Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian | Newport Beach, California 92658 |
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center | Nashville, Tennessee 37232-6838 |
University of California, Los Angeles | Los Angeles, California |
Memorial Cancer Institute | Pembroke Pines, Florida 33028 |
University of California, Davis Cancer Center | Sacramento, California 95817 |
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, The Jordan Research and Educational Institute | Berkley, California 94705 |
University of California, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center | Los Angeles, California 90033 |
University of California, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center | San Francisco, California 94115 |
Lahey Clinic Hospital | Burlington, Massachusetts 01805 |