The purpose of this study is to develop blood tests and urine tests that can tell doctors how much radiation a person has been exposed to. Doctors know how much radiation patients are exposed to in certain medical situations. An example of this would be radiation treatment for cancer. Radiation treatment machines are programmed to give exact doses of radiation.
MSKCC patients undergoing TBI as part of a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) will have blood drawn and urine collected for use in the validation and refinement of new methods for rapid high-throughput radiation biodosimetry. These blood and urine samples will be collected before, and at defined times after TBI. Blood sampling will occur in the same manner that it does during routine patient care during HSCT.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
198
blood (approximately two 4 ml; equivalent to less than 2 tablespoon) and urine (a cup of urine) samples or testing a total of three times. Blood will be drawn and urine will be collected once before radiation treatment and twice after first radiation treatment.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
To develop, validate and refine high-throughput platforms for radiation biodosimetry using metabolomic assays.
The approach involves profiling blood and urinary metabolites that are specific for radiation exposure and dose.
Time frame: 3 years
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