Advancing clinical and translational research in germ cell tumours (GCT): recommendations from the Malignant Germ Cell International Consortium.


Journal

British journal of cancer
ISSN: 1532-1827
Titre abrégé: Br J Cancer
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0370635

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
11 2022
Historique:
received: 03 08 2022
accepted: 23 09 2022
revised: 14 09 2022
pubmed: 14 10 2022
medline: 28 10 2022
entrez: 13 10 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Germ cell tumours (GCTs) are a heterogeneous group of rare neoplasms that present in different anatomical sites and across a wide spectrum of patient ages from birth through to adulthood. Once these strata are applied, cohort numbers become modest, hindering inferences regarding management and therapeutic advances. Moreover, patients with GCTs are treated by different medical professionals including paediatric oncologists, neuro-oncologists, medical oncologists, neurosurgeons, gynaecological oncologists, surgeons, and urologists. Silos of care have thus formed, further hampering knowledge dissemination between specialists. Dedicated biobank specimen collection is therefore critical to foster continuous growth in our understanding of similarities and differences by age, gender, and site, particularly for rare cancers such as GCTs. Here, the Malignant Germ Cell International Consortium provides a framework to create a sustainable, global research infrastructure that facilitates acquisition of tissue and liquid biopsies together with matched clinical data sets that reflect the diversity of GCTs. Such an effort would create an invaluable repository of clinical and biological data which can underpin international collaborations that span professional boundaries, translate into clinical practice, and ultimately impact patient outcomes.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36229581
doi: 10.1038/s41416-022-02000-4
pii: 10.1038/s41416-022-02000-4
pmc: PMC9596690
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

1577-1583

Informations de copyright

© 2022. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Adriana Fonseca (A)

Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. afonsecash@childrensnational.org.

João Lobo (J)

Cancer Biology and Epigenetics Group, Research Center of IPO Porto, RISE@CI-IPOP Health Research Network, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto, Porto Comprehensive Cancer Center, R. Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 4200-072, Porto, Portugal.
Department of Pathology, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto, R. Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 4200-072, Porto, Portugal.
Department of Pathology and Molecular Immunology, ICBAS-School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, Rua Jorge Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-513, Porto, Portugal.

Florette K Hazard (FK)

Department of Pathology, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

Joanna Gell (J)

The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, CT, USA.
Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut Medical School, Farmington, CT, USA.
The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA.

Peter K Nicholls (PK)

Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK.

Robert S Weiss (RS)

Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, NY, USA.

Lindsay Klosterkemper (L)

Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

Samuel L Volchenboum (SL)

Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

James C Nicholson (JC)

Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
Department of Paediatrics, Level 8, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.

A Lindsay Frazier (AL)

Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

James F Amatruda (JF)

Cancer and Blood Disease Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles; Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Aditya Bagrodia (A)

Department of Urology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.

Michelle Lockley (M)

Centre for Cancer Genomics and Computational Biology, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Matthew J Murray (MJ)

Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK. mjm16@cam.ac.uk.
Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. mjm16@cam.ac.uk.

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