National Institutes Of Health

 

DNA Analysis of Tumor Tissue Samples using Paraffin-Embedded Blocks from Patients with Diffuse Pontine Glioma

Pilot Study conducted at the National Institutes of Health

Purpose: Establishing new technique to study the DNA from paraffin-embedded blocks of tissue from autopsy. 

Eligibility: pediatric diffuse pontine glioma

There is no time limit on the paraffin block, which is why it would be ideal to study.  Anyone who has a child with DIPG, who chooses to have an autopsy, can ask the hospital pathology department who did the autopsy to send a paraffin-embedded block.

Because we only need one paraffin block, families can actually have tissue sent to more than one place (e.g. St Jude and NIH). 

Trial Lead Organizations
National Institutes of Health

Katherine Elizabeth Warren, M.D.
National Cancer Institute
Bldg 10 CRC, Rm 1-3930
Bethesda, MD 20892-1104
Phone 301- 435-4683
Fax 301- 451-7052
warrenk@mail.nih.gov

Dr. Warren's Research Nurse
Robyn Bent, RN, BSN
Research Nurse, Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI
Building 10, RM 1-39409000
Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone: 301-496-8009
Fax: 301-496-2192
rbent@mail.nih.gov

 

Last update Feb. 5, 2009