Swiss Spinal Tumor Registry (Swiss-STR)

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Swiss Spinal Tumor Registry (Swiss-STR)

Study Purpose

The Swiss Spinal Tumor Registry is a prospective REDCap-based registry, collecting data of surgically treated patients with primary and metastatic tumors of the spine.

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers Healthy volunteers are participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms	No
Study Type An interventional clinical study is where participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions (or no intervention) so that researchers can evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes. An observational clinical study is where participants identified as belonging to study groups are assessed for biomedical or health outcomes. Searching Both is inclusive of interventional and observational studies.	Observational [Patient Registry]
Eligible Ages	18 Years and Over
Gender	All

More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Diagnosis of primary spinal tumor.

- Diagnosis of secondary (metastatic) spinal tumor.

- Indication for surgical treatment is present.

- Patient age: =/>18 years.

Exclusion criteria:

- Withdrawal of consent.

- Withdrawal from initially planned surgical procedure.

- Patient age: <18 years

Trial Details

Trial ID: This trial id was obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, providing information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants with locations in all 50 States and in 196 countries.	NCT06869746
Phase Phase 1: Studies that emphasize safety and how the drug is metabolized and excreted in humans. Phase 2: Studies that gather preliminary data on effectiveness (whether the drug works in people who have a certain disease or condition) and additional safety data. Phase 3: Studies that gather more information about safety and effectiveness by studying different populations and different dosages and by using the drug in combination with other drugs. Phase 4: Studies occurring after FDA has approved a drug for marketing, efficacy, or optimal use.
Lead Sponsor The sponsor is the organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.	Luzerner Kantonsspital
Principal Investigator The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.	Edin Nevzati, MD
Principal Investigator Affiliation	N/A
Agency Class Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.	Other
Overall Status	Recruiting
Countries	Switzerland
Conditions The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.	Spinal Tumors, Surgical Treatment

Additional Details

Tumors of the vertebral column consist of primary spinal tumors and malignancies metastasizing to the spine. While primary spine tumors represent a rare condition, metastases to the spine have gradually increased over past decades because of increases in aging population and continued advances in cancer therapy with improved survival times across multiple cancer subtypes. Metastases to the vertebral column are found in up to 70% of cancer patients, with 10% of patients demonstrating epidural spinal cord compression. Therefore, many cancer patients may face spinal surgical intervention at some point of their chronic illness. Numerous surgical treatment options are currently available, ranging from simple cement augmentation over decompression of neural elements to extended instrumentation or reconstruction of the spine, including hybrid procedures that combine these techniques. However, precise surgical treatment guidelines do not exist, likely due to the absence of robust, long-term clinical outcomes data in these patients, and the overall heterogeneous nature of spinal tumors. The primary goal of Swiss-STR is to inform on the effectiveness of current practice in spinal oncology and its impact on patient outcomes. Furthermore, it will help to better categorize the different clinical presentations of spinal tumors, thereby facilitating treatment recommendations, assessing the socio-economic burden of this condition to the healthcare system, and improving the quality of care. In cases of rare tumors, multicenter data pooling will fill significant data gaps, allowing a better understanding of these entities. Finally, the approach is to first build and implement a high-quality registry with efficient electronic data capture strategies across hospital sites in Switzerland, with the potential to later expand internationally, providing opportunities for future international scientific collaboration to push the envelope in cancer research further.

Arms & Interventions

Arms

: Swiss-STR Cohort

Patients with primary or metastatic spinal tumors undergoing surgical treatment

Interventions

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