Improving the diagnosis and treatment of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: collection of tumor tissues ;The HNcol study

Improving the diagnosis and treatment of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: collection of tumor tissues ;The *HNcol* study - HNcol

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON43791

Enrollment

2000

Registered

2008-06-12

Start date

2008-08-15

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-06-18

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Conditions

head and neck cancer

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Age

18 Years to 99 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients must have a histologically proven HNSCC, a squamous cell carcinoma from the oral cavity, oro- or hypopharynx, larynx and cervical part of oesophagus. 2. Patients must have sufficient knowledge of the Dutch language to understand the meaning of the study as described in the patient information. 3. Patients must have the mental capacity to understand the meaning of the study as described in the patient information patient information. 4. Patients must give written informed consent. 5. Age of the patients should be >18. An upper limit of age will not be applied. Elderly patients who are fit enough to undergo surgery in the head and neck area are not likely to encounter negative effects of the extra procedures that will be applied as part of the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: The decision of the surgeon that the patients is not suitable for this study (e.g. in case of limited size of the carcinoma).

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The obtained material and information will be stored and employed for future validation and prognostic studies.	—

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results