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Practice Guideline
. 2024 Aug 15;30(16):3395-3406.
doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-24-0101.

Biological Sample Collection to Advance Research and Treatment: A Fight Osteosarcoma Through European Research and Euro Ewing Consortium Statement

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Biological Sample Collection to Advance Research and Treatment: A Fight Osteosarcoma Through European Research and Euro Ewing Consortium Statement

Darrell Green et al. Clin Cancer Res. .

Abstract

Osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma are bone tumors mostly diagnosed in children, adolescents, and young adults. Despite multimodal therapy, morbidity is high and survival rates remain low, especially in the metastatic disease setting. Trials investigating targeted therapies and immunotherapies have not been groundbreaking. Better understanding of biological subgroups, the role of the tumor immune microenvironment, factors that promote metastasis, and clinical biomarkers of prognosis and drug response are required to make progress. A prerequisite to achieve desired success is a thorough, systematic, and clinically linked biological analysis of patient samples, but disease rarity and tissue processing challenges such as logistics and infrastructure have contributed to a lack of relevant samples for clinical care and research. There is a need for a Europe-wide framework to be implemented for the adequate and minimal sampling, processing, storage, and analysis of patient samples. Two international panels of scientists, clinicians, and patient and parent advocates have formed the Fight Osteosarcoma Through European Research consortium and the Euro Ewing Consortium. The consortia shared their expertise and institutional practices to formulate new guidelines. We report new reference standards for adequate and minimally required sampling (time points, diagnostic samples, and liquid biopsy tubes), handling, and biobanking to enable advanced biological studies in bone sarcoma. We describe standards for analysis and annotation to drive collaboration and data harmonization with practical, legal, and ethical considerations. This position paper provides comprehensive guidelines that should become the new standards of care that will accelerate scientific progress, promote collaboration, and improve outcomes.

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D. Andreou reports other support from PharmaMar outside the submitted work. S.S. Bielack reports personal fees from Y-mAbs, MAP BioPharma, SERB SAS, and Zschimmer and Schwarz Mohsdorf GmbH & Co. KG outside the submitted work. K. Boye reports personal fees from Bayer, GSK, Deciphera, Incyte, and NEC Oncoimmunity, as well as grants and personal fees from Eli Lilly and Company, personal fees from Novartis, and nonfinancial support from Merck outside the submitted work. N. Gaspar reports other support from ISPEN, Eisai, and Innovative Therapies for Children with Cancer outside the submitted work. J. Hardes reports grants from implantcast, Buxtehude, outside the submitted work. S. Hecker-Nolting reports grants from Deutsche Kinderkrebsstiftung, Bonn, Germany, and Foerderverein Krebskranke Kinder, Stuttgart, Germany, outside the submitted work. E. Palmerini reports personal fees from Deciphera Pharmaceutical, SynOX Therapeutics, Daiichi Sankyo, and Eusa Pharma outside the submitted work. S.J. Strauss reports personal fees from Ceridwen Oncology, Boehringer Ingelheim, Tessellate BIO, Inhibrx, and Adaptimmune outside the submitted work. C. Valverde reports grants and personal fees from PharmaMar, personal fees from Roche, GSK, Mundipharma, Eli Lilly and Company, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Ipsen, other support from Adaptimmune, Karyopharm, Foghorn Therapeutics, Ayala therapeutics, and Inhibrx, grants from Bayer, and nonfinancial support and other support from GEIS (Spanish Sarcoma Group) outside the submitted work. M.A.J. van de Sande reports grants from CarboFix and other support from SynOX and Deciphera outside the submitted work. M.G. McCabe reports other support from Eisai outside the submitted work. No disclosures were reported by the other authors.

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Figure 1.
Overview of the sample types to be collected. To maximize the advantages of sample collection, in order to obtain a comprehensive biological understanding of bone sarcoma and host-related factors, different sample types at sequential stages of the clinical pathway should be collected. (Created with BioRender.com.)

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