Protocol for Collecting, Banking and Distributing Human Tissue Samples: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Tissue Resources Core Facility

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Trial ID: NCT01354002

Purpose

The aims of this protocol are: to collect and store diseased and normal tissue and body fluid samples from new and returning patients at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (SJCRH), affiliated sites and collaborating institutions; to collect and store samples from relatives of SJCRH patients; to collect and store retrospective and prospective pertinent corresponding clinical and laboratory data on disease characterization, treatment, and outcome; and to serve as a source of human biological samples and corresponding laboratory and clinical data.

Official Title

TBANK: Protocol for Collecting, Banking and Distributing Human Tissue Samples: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Tissue Resources Core Facility

Stanford Investigator(s)

Eligibility


Inclusion Criteria:

   - Patients (and their relatives) and control populations treated or studied at SJCRH and
   SJCRH affiliates and collaborating sites that have IRB approval for TBANK with
   malignant and non-malignant conditions.

   - Patients from institutions that do not have Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval
   for TBANK, and at which a banking mechanism may not be established, who provide
   samples for research at St. Jude and from whom consent for TBANK is obtained by the
   TBANK principal investigator (PI).

Exclusion Criteria:

   - Patients from institutions that do not have IRB approval for TBANK, and who have not
   provided consent for TBANK, or patients not enrolled on SJCRH protocols that
   incorporate consent for tumor banking.

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Contact Information

Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
Zeel Patel
650-723-6286