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

Description

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.

Conditions

Normal and Diseased Tissue and Body Fluids Samples

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

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.

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

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

Condition
Normal and Diseased Tissue and Body Fluids Samples
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Huntsville

Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children, Huntsville, Alabama, United States, 35801

Palo Alto

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States, 94305

San Diego

Rady Children's Hospital and Health Center, San Diego, California, United States, 92123

Peoria

Children's Hospital of Illinois at OSF-Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Illinois, United States, 61637

Baton Rouge

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70808

Shreveport

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, 71130-3932

Detroit

Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48201

Springfield

Mercy Children's Hospital - Springfield, Springfield, Missouri, United States, 65804

Charlotte

St. Jude Affiliate Clinic at Novant Health Hemby Children's Hospital, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 28204

Tulsa

St. Francis Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, 74136

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility 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).
  • * 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.

Ages Eligible for Study

to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital,

Charles Mullighan, MBBS, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Study Record Dates

2050-12