Family Study of Melanoma in Italy

NCT00339222 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: 99990203802-C-N038
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 1,708
• Locations: 2 countries
• Sites: 7

Brief Summary

During the course of a case-control study of melanoma conducted at the Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy in the years 1994-1996, 20 families with 2 or 3 melanoma cases were identified and studied. The area where the study was conducted showed the steepest increase in melanoma incidence in Mediterranean populations between the years 1987 and 1997. Clinical characteristics of melanoma in the families studied were similar to those typically described in fair-skinned populations, but no relevant mutations in the coding regions of known candidate genes from melanoma have been found. Lack of findings could be due to the modest number of families and the small number of affected CMM cases examined. We cannot exclude the possibility of alterations in introns, splicing sites or promoter regions. Also epigenetic factors could affect the expression of the gene products we studied. Alternatively, germline alterations of a gene(s) other than the candidate genes we analyzed may play an important role in melanoma predisposition in this population. A large number of families is needed to test these hypotheses. These additional families could provide an important contribution to the understanding o melanoma development. In fact, this population does not generally have the host characteristics that are usually associated with higher risk for melanoma (e.g., light skin color, red hair, blue eyes, multiple freckles, tendency to sunburn, etc.) but do have a relative high frequency of dysplastic nevi and melanoma. The main objective of this study is to recruit more families at the Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy in order to reach a larger sample size. Recently, 16 potential melanoma-prone families have been identified through patient's or physicians' referrals by the Dermatologists at the Bufalini Hospital. The dermatologists have maintained close relationships with members of these families and are confident that these subjects would be willing to participate in a study if contacted. The first goal of our study is to contact this family group and verify their willingness to participate in the study. In addition, new families could be identified and recruited. We propose to conduct a pilot project. We estimate recruitment of approximately 25 families with 2 or more melanoma cases in first -degree relatives over a one-year period, including the 16 families already identified and approximately 10 new kindreds. At the end of the pilot phase we will determine the feasibility of continuing recruitment.

Conditions

Melanoma; Dysplastic Nevi; Melanocytic Nevi

Keywords

Genetics; Kindreds; Mediterranean Population; Nevi; Pigmentation; Melanoma-Prone Families; Sun Exposure; Melanoma

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Defining the clinical spectrum and natural history of familial melanoma and susceptibility states over multiple generations

  Melanoma Risk

  Ongoing

Study Arms (1)

1

Melanoma-prone families from dermatology clinics.

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 10 Years - 100 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Melanoma-prone families from dermatology clinics.

You may qualify if:

• Individuals with the diagnosis of CMM at the Department of Dermatology, Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy who have other family members affected with CMM will be eligible for participation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Cancer Institute (NCI): lead

Study Sites (7)

Ospedale Maurizio Bufalini Cesena, Italy

Cessana, 00/00/00, Italy

Location

University of Genoa

Genoa, Italy

Location

University of L'Aquila

L’Aquila, Italy

Location

Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori

Milan, 1-20133, Italy

Location

Istituto Oncologico Veneto IRCCS University of Padua

Padua, Italy

Location

Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (Centre de Diagnostic Biomedic)

Barcelona, Spain

Location

Instituto Valenciano de Oncologia

Valencia, Spain

Location

Related Publications (3)

• Shi J, Yang XR, Ballew B, Rotunno M, Calista D, Fargnoli MC, Ghiorzo P, Bressac-de Paillerets B, Nagore E, Avril MF, Caporaso NE, McMaster ML, Cullen M, Wang Z, Zhang X; NCI DCEG Cancer Sequencing Working Group; NCI DCEG Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory; French Familial Melanoma Study Group; Bruno W, Pastorino L, Queirolo P, Banuls-Roca J, Garcia-Casado Z, Vaysse A, Mohamdi H, Riazalhosseini Y, Foglio M, Jouenne F, Hua X, Hyland PL, Yin J, Vallabhaneni H, Chai W, Minghetti P, Pellegrini C, Ravichandran S, Eggermont A, Lathrop M, Peris K, Scarra GB, Landi G, Savage SA, Sampson JN, He J, Yeager M, Goldin LR, Demenais F, Chanock SJ, Tucker MA, Goldstein AM, Liu Y, Landi MT. Rare missense variants in POT1 predispose to familial cutaneous malignant melanoma. Nat Genet. 2014 May;46(5):482-6. doi: 10.1038/ng.2941. Epub 2014 Mar 30.

  PMID: 24686846 BACKGROUND

• Iles MM, Law MH, Stacey SN, Han J, Fang S, Pfeiffer R, Harland M, Macgregor S, Taylor JC, Aben KK, Akslen LA, Avril MF, Azizi E, Bakker B, Benediktsdottir KR, Bergman W, Scarra GB, Brown KM, Calista D, Chaudru V, Fargnoli MC, Cust AE, Demenais F, de Waal AC, Debniak T, Elder DE, Friedman E, Galan P, Ghiorzo P, Gillanders EM, Goldstein AM, Gruis NA, Hansson J, Helsing P, Hocevar M, Hoiom V, Hopper JL, Ingvar C, Janssen M, Jenkins MA, Kanetsky PA, Kiemeney LA, Lang J, Lathrop GM, Leachman S, Lee JE, Lubinski J, Mackie RM, Mann GJ, Martin NG, Mayordomo JI, Molven A, Mulder S, Nagore E, Novakovic S, Okamoto I, Olafsson JH, Olsson H, Pehamberger H, Peris K, Grasa MP, Planelles D, Puig S, Puig-Butille JA, Randerson-Moor J, Requena C, Rivoltini L, Rodolfo M, Santinami M, Sigurgeirsson B, Snowden H, Song F, Sulem P, Thorisdottir K, Tuominen R, Van Belle P, van der Stoep N, van Rossum MM, Wei Q, Wendt J, Zelenika D, Zhang M, Landi MT, Thorleifsson G, Bishop DT, Amos CI, Hayward NK, Stefansson K, Bishop JA, Barrett JH; GenoMEL Consortium; Q-MEGA and AMFS Investigators. A variant in FTO shows association with melanoma risk not due to BMI. Nat Genet. 2013 Apr;45(4):428-32, 432e1. doi: 10.1038/ng.2571. Epub 2013 Mar 3.

  PMID: 23455637 BACKGROUND

• Yang XR, Rotunno M, Xiao Y, Ingvar C, Helgadottir H, Pastorino L, van Doorn R, Bennett H, Graham C, Sampson JN, Malasky M, Vogt A, Zhu B, Bianchi-Scarra G, Bruno W, Queirolo P, Fornarini G, Hansson J, Tuominen R, Burdett L, Hicks B, Hutchinson A, Jones K, Yeager M, Chanock SJ, Landi MT, Hoiom V, Olsson H, Gruis N, Ghiorzo P, Tucker MA, Goldstein AM. Multiple rare variants in high-risk pancreatic cancer-related genes may increase risk for pancreatic cancer in a subset of patients with and without germline CDKN2A mutations. Hum Genet. 2016 Nov;135(11):1241-1249. doi: 10.1007/s00439-016-1715-1. Epub 2016 Jul 23.

  PMID: 27449771 BACKGROUND

Biospecimen

Retention: SAMPLES WITH DNA

whole blood, lymphocytes, tissue sections, plasma

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Melanoma; Dysplastic Nevus Syndrome; Nevus, Pigmented; Nevus

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Neuroendocrine Tumors; Neuroectodermal Tumors; Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue; Nevi and Melanomas; Skin Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Skin Diseases; Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases; Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary; Genetic Diseases, Inborn; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities

Study Officials

• Maria T Landi, M.D.

  National Cancer Institute (NCI)

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: FAMILY BASED
• Time Perspective: OTHER
• Sponsor Type: NIH
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 19, 2006
• First Posted: June 21, 2006
• Study Start: November 5, 2001
• Primary Completion: June 30, 2020
• Study Completion: June 30, 2020
• Last Updated: July 1, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-06

Locations

ES (2); IT (5)