Recruiting
Storage and Research Use of Human Bio-specimens From Melanoma Patients and Clinical Testing for Assignment of Treatment
About this study
The purpose of this research is to identify biological characteristics occurring in the initiation and progression of melanoma.
- Condition
- Melanoma
- Tested
- Tissue and blood collection
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Who can join
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Inclusion 4
- Minimum age: 18 years
- Study condition: Melanoma
- Pathologically-proven diagnosis of melanoma.
- Patient must have a test or procedure that has the potential to provide left-over tissue that can be banked for future research purposes OR the patient has already had a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure but who has not yet been approached to participate is also eligible.
Exclusion 2
- Any patient with significant contraindications to venipuncture (e.g., severe anemia) will be excluded from blood collection procedures. However, if the patient provides consent and a paraffin-embedded block or 10-15 unstained slides of their tissue diagnosis, they will not be excluded from this protocol.
- Any patient unable or unwilling to provide consent.
Where
1 site, 1 recruiting
Vanderbitl-Ingram Cancer Center
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Contact
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Vanderbilt-Ingram Service for Timely Access
800-811-8480
Potential match only. Final eligibility is determined by the study team.