NCT00898638Recruiting
Tissue Sample Collection From Patients With Head and Neck Cancer and From Healthy Participants
Head and Neck Tumor Tissue Repository and Clinical Database
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 28 Oct 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
RATIONALE: Collecting and storing samples of tissue, saliva, and blood from patients with cancer and from healthy participants to study in the laboratory may help the study of cancer in the future. PURPOSE: This research study is collecting and storing tissue samples from patients with head and neck cancer and from healthy participants.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 8000 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 9 May 2009
- Start date
- Feb 2003
- Primary completion date
- Dec 2050
- Lead sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Diseases
- Head and neck cancer
- NCT number
- NCT00898638
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Planned participants: 8000
- From Feb 2003 to the primary completion date, Dec 2050
- 4 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.
Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Criteria the registry did not label
- DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
- Meets 1 of the following criteria:
- Diagnosis of head and neck cancer
- Being treated at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for the cancer
- Healthy participant
- PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- Not specified
- PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- Not specified
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (4)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center at Franklin Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nashville | United States | Recruiting |
| Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center - Cool Springs Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nashville | United States | Recruiting |
| Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nashville | United States | Recruiting |
| Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Nashville Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nashville | United States | Recruiting |
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