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Collection of Immunology Specimens From Patients With Cancer or Blood Disorders, and Healthy Volunteers

University of Southern California · with National Cancer Institute (NCI) · NCT03207854

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 19+ · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Observational
Target enrollment
625
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
April 12, 2017
Record last updated
April 2, 2026

Status re-checked against ClinicalTrials.gov within the last 12 hours.

What the study is about

This research trial collects and stores blood, tissue, and bone marrow specimens from patients with cancer or blood disorders, and healthy volunteers to study the immune system in a variety of different types of experiments, as well as associated clinical data as appropriate, focused on understanding mechanisms of immunotherapy.

Being studied: Biospecimen Collection; Laboratory Biomarker Analysis; Questionnaire Administration

Conditions: Healthy Subject; Hematologic and Lymphocytic Disorder; Hematopoietic and Lymphoid Cell Neoplasm; Immune System Disorder; Malignant Neoplasm

Eligibility criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

  • All patients known to have cancer, an immune-mediated hematologic diagnosis, or a healthy normal volunteer
  • Definition of immune-mediated hematologic diagnosis: diagnoses for which immune dysfunction and/or immune system directed therapy (eg. aplastic anemia, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, immune thrombocytopenic purpura [ITP], etc.) are involved
  • Definition of healthy normal volunteer: persons lacking diagnoses of any type of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, non-hematologic autoimmune disease (eg. systemic lupus erythematosus [SLE], rheumatoid arthritis [RA], Crohn's disease) and not taking any immunosuppressive medications
  • Patients must have been seen in the Norris Hospital and outpatient clinics, or the Los Angeles County (LAC)-University of Southern California (USC) Medical Center or outpatient clinics; healthy volunteers can be recruited without any physician visit appointments since their labs are strictly for clinical research and not for personal health issues unrelated to the project

Exclusion Criteria

  • Unable to give informed consent to specimen collection
  • Known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive status
  • Persons taking any type of immunosuppressive medication are excluded from participating as healthy normal volunteers
  • Any patient for whom specimen collection is judged to be unsafe (for example, for patients unable to establish venous access)

Recruiting US locations

  • USC / Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Los Angeles, CA 90033

    Site contact: Arta Zenunovic · 323-442-5771 · Arta.zenunovic@med.usc.edu

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Arta Zenunovic · 323-442 7828 · Arta.zenunovic@med.usc.edu
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