Collection Of Tissue, Blood, and Other Specimens From Patients With Head and Neck Tumors To Study the Causes, Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Cancers

Collection of Tissue, Blood, and Other Specimens From Patients With Head and Neck Diseases to Study the Causes, Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Cancers

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00580203

Enrollment

1468

Registered

2007-12-24

Start date

2004-02-29

Completion date

2024-11-12

Last updated

2024-11-15

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Conditions

Head and Neck Cancers

Keywords

HEENT cancers, larynx, thyroid, sarcoma, specimen analysis

Brief summary

This is a protocol to collect tissues, blood, and other specimens from patients with malignant or nonmalignant diseases of the head and neck. Collected specimens will be used in laboratory studies to investigate the growth, development, and transformation of normal and abnormal cells in the future.

Detailed description

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Patients with head and neck diseases are eligible if they have had tissue, serum, urine, or other specimens removed or collected for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. * Patients will be entered onto this protocol without preference for any racial or ethnic group. * Patients may have received prior chemotherapy, radiation, surgical therapy, immunotherapy, or differentiation therapy. * The specimen collected must be large enough to allow conventional testing necessary for patient care, with the portion of the specimen reserved for research laboratory analysis excised from residual tissue that would otherwise have been discarded.

Exclusion criteria

* Patients not giving informed consent will be excluded.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Collect tissues, blood, and other specimens from patients with malignant or nonmalignant diseases of the head and neck. Specimens will be used to investigate growth, development, and transformation of normal and abnormal cells in the future.	36 months

Countries

United States

Outcome results