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Investigation of the Human Immune Response in Normal Subjects and Patients with Disorders of the Immune System and Cancer
For Condition: Communicable Disease,Immunologic Deficiency Syndrome,Neoplasm
Status: Recruiting
Sponsor(s): National Cancer Institute (NCI) ,
Synopsis: This protocol is being submitted to consolidate, update, and expand two previously approved protocols (77-C-0066 and 82-C-0044) into a single protocol. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors involved in the regulation of the immune system of healthy individuals and to define the abnormalities in this regulation that underlies the immunological disorders of patients with a variety of immunodeficiency and malignant disorders. The studies will include the ex vivo phenotypic and functional analysis of the network of cells involved in humoral and cellular immune responses, and in vivo testing for the capacity to make delayed-type hypersensitivity and humoral responses following immunization with a variety of antigens. Individuals to be studied will include patients with a variety of malignancies and patients with primary and secondary immunodeficiency disorders. Selected family members or family members known to be genetic carriers of certain immunodeficiency diseases as well as normal, unrelated individuals will also be studied. A small number of procedures will be used including analysis of blood obtained by phlebotomy, apheresis, skin testing and recall antigens and immunization to assess humoral immunity.
Details: This protocol is being submitted to consolidate, update, and expand two previously approved protocols (77-C-0066 and 82-C-0044) into a single protocol. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors involved in the regulation of the immune system of healthy individuals and to define the abnormalities in this regulation that underlie the immunological disorders of patients with a variety of immunodeficiency and malignant disorders. The studies will include the ex vivo phenotypic and functional analysis of the network of cells involved in humoral and cellular immune responses, and in vivo testing for the capacity to make delayed-type hypersensitivity and humoral responses following immunization with a variety of antigens. Individuals to be studied will include patients with a variety of malignancies and patients with primary and secondary immunodeficiency disorders. Selected family members or family members known to be genetic carriers of certain immunodeficiency diseases as well as normal, unrelated individuals will also be studied. A small number of procedures will be used including analysis of blood obtained by phlebotomy, apheresis, skin testing with recall antigens and immunization to assess humoral immunity.
Eligibility:
Study Type: Observational, Natural History
Minimum Age/Maximum Age: /
Genders: Both
Protocol Entry Criteria: INCLUSION CRITERIA: Patient must have a suspected or known disorder of the immune system or malignancy, OR Be a family member of a patient with a known or suspected immunodeficiency disease, OR Be a known or potential carrier of genetically determined immunodeficiency disease. Specific immunodeficiency disorders may include but are not limited to: X-linked SCID (severe combined immunodeficiency) (c gamma deficiency), autosomal recessive SCID, X-linked CD40 ligand deficiency, Common variable immunodeficiency, Ataxia-telangiectasia, Wiskott Aldrich syndrome, and the DiGeorge syndrome. Normal volunteers. Age of birth and above for patients with suspected or known disorders of the immune system. Patient (or parent/guardian of a minor child) must be able to understand and sign informed consent. Hematocrit greater than 28%, and platelet count greater than 50,000u/l necessary for apheresis. Subjects for who apheresis is desired but whose counts are lower than those above must be evaluated and approved by a Department of Transfusion Medicine consult physician. Weight greater than 25 kg and adequate venous access (not requiring placement of a central catheter) are necessary for apheresis. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: Overall Exclusion Criteria: Pregnant or breast feeding women will not be eligible for any aspect of this protocol except phlebotomy. Exclusion Criteria for skin/parenteral antigen tests: Any history of severe reaction or allergy to a particular skin test antigen or other ingredients in the formulation (e.g. Thimerosal, eggs or avian protein) will exclude a subject from receiving that particular skin test. Children under the age of 2 years are not eligible to receive the pneumococcal polyvalent vaccine. Subjects under the age of 18 years are not eligible to receive the Candida or mumps skin test antigens. Normal pediatric volunteers (less than 18 years) will not receive pneumococcal tetanus, or diphtheria vaccines. Exclusion Criteria for Apheresis Alone: Any diagnosed medical condition which may be worsened by the apheresis procedure. Specifically the patient should not have any of the following: 1. Congestive Heart Failure; 2. History of angina; 3. Severe hypotension (at the discretion of the patient's physician, the apheresis staff and the attending physician from the Department of Transfusion Medicine (DTM) per DTN Standard Operating Policies.); 4. Poorly controlled hypertension (average baseline blood pressure greater than 160/90); 5. History of a coagulation protein disorder. Pediatric normal volunteers (less than 18 years) will not undergo apheresis.
Total Enrollment: 1000
Location and Contact Information:
National Cancer Institute (NCI) *Recruiting*
Bethesda, Maryland, 20892
United States
Recruiting Clinical Support Center/NCI 1-888-624-1937
Additional Information:
Study ID Numbers: 970143; 97-C-0143
Study Start Date: July 8, 1997
Record last reviewed: May 1, 2004
Additional information available at: clinicaltrials.gov
Clinicaltrials.gov Reference link: NCT00001582
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