BRCA Status, Ovarian Cancer
Conditions
Brief summary
The aim of this prospective registration and translational research study is to evaluate the praevalence of BRCA regarding germline and somatic mutations.
Detailed description
Explorative analysis will be performed.
Interventions
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* Female ovarian cancer patients aged \>= 18 years. * Women with first diagnosis of epithelial ovarian cancer OR women diagnosed with platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer. * Multiple platinum based prior therapies are allowed.
Exclusion criteria
* Non-epithelial ovarian malignancy. * Platinum-resistant or refractory disease. * Paraffin embedded tumor samples not available.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Germline alterations in BRCA1/2 (yes/no) and other ovarian cancer predisposing genes (yes/no; if yes which) | once per sample |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Results of Immunohistochemistry in tumor samples | once per sample | — |
| Somatic alterations in BRCA1/2 (yes/no) and other ovarian cancer predisposing genes (yes/no; if yes which) | once per sample | — |
| BRCAness tumor phenotype in ovarian cancer (yes/no). | once per sample | — |
| Patient Survey for perspectives and satisfaction regarding testing and counseling | once after BRCA result is available | 3 questions |
| Determining the correlation of genetic alterations, cancer treatments, overall survival, progression-free survival and occurrence of new malignancies | once | — |
| Differences of tumor samples from primary and relapsed disease | once per sample for each stage of disease | — |
Other
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Validate the results from Pennington et al. (Pennington et al. Clin Cancer Res 2014) | once |
| Evaluate predictive value of PARp-1 expression for HRD mutations | once for all samples |
Countries
Germany