This study is being done to find out if patient blood samples can be used to perform individualized modeling of cancer therapy-related side effects.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. Generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC's) from patients receiving cancer treatment. II. Differentiate patient iPSC's into cardiomyocytes and/or neurons or other cell types that may be relevant to modeling cancer therapy-related adverse effects, such as cardiotoxicity and neurotoxicity. III. Use patient specific iPSC-derived cells to: IIIa. Model cancer therapy-related toxicities; IIIb. Better understand the mechanisms of toxicities; IIIc. Determine if patient specific genetic variants are causative of toxicities; IIId. Screen novel protective therapies for cancer therapy-related toxicities. OUTLINE: This is an observational study. Patients undergo blood sample collection and have their medical records reviewed on study.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
30
Non-interventional study
Mayo Clinic in Florida
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
RECRUITINGIn vitro measurement of cellular viability in response to chemotherapy
Will be compared between cells derived from patients who experienced treatment-induced toxicity to cells derived from patients who received the same cancer therapy without toxicity. Statistical analyses of different endpoints will use Fisher's exact test, one-way ANOVA test followed by all-pairwise-multiple-comparison procedures, or an unpaired, two-tailed Student's t-test with significant differences defined by P \< 0.05.
Time frame: Blood drawn at enrollment to obtain sample
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