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Kidney Cancer DNA Registry

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · NCT02087852

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 18+ · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Observational
Target enrollment
750
US sites recruiting
7
Study start
March 2014
Record last updated
April 9, 2026

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What the study is about

This registry will help us develop better methods of:

  • Preventing these cancers
  • Diagnosing these cancers
  • Treating these cancers

Being studied: salvia for germline DNA; the Kidney Cancer Questionnaire; Family History Questionnaire (when applicable); Blood draw; Epidemiologic Questionnaire

Conditions: Renal Cancer

Eligibility criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Kidney Cancer Case Cohort

  • Must be ≥ 18 years of age AND
  • Must be an English-speaker AND
  • Must have a diagnosis or suspicion of kidney cancer

Family Member Cohort

  • Must be ≥ 18 years of age AND
  • Must be an English-speaker AND
  • Must be a blood relative of the proband. Family members of probands including mother, father, sisters, brothers, half-sisters, half-brothers, daughters, sons, grandmothers, grandfathers, as well as aunts and uncles are eligible. These individuals need not have kidney cancer, as they will be used for segregation analysis of suspected variants found in the proband; requesting DNA from relatives is required.

Control Cohort

  • Must be ≥ 18 years of age AND
  • Must be an English-speaker AND
  • Must not have a personal history of cancer, with the exception of nonmelanoma skin cancer, AND
  • Must not be a blood relative of any cases or controls enrolled in this study

Exclusion Criteria

  • Patients who, in the opinion of the primary MSKCC clinician or the investigator, have a condition that precludes their ability to provide an informed consent

Recruiting US locations

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering at Basking Ridge (Consent and Follow-up)

    Basking Ridge, NJ 07920

    Site contact: Jonathan Coleman, MD · 646-422-4432

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Consent and Follow up)

    Middletown, NJ 07748

    Site contact: Jonathan Coleman, MD · 646-422-4432

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Consent and Follow up )

    Montvale, NJ 07645

    Site contact: Jonathan Coleman, MD · 646-422-4432

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Commack (Consent and Follow-up)

    Commack, NY 11725

    Site contact: Jonathan Coleman, MD · 646-422-4432

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (Consent and Follow up)

    Harrison, NY 10604

    Site contact: Jonathan Coleman, MD · 646-422-4432

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (All Protocol Activities)

    New York, NY 10065

    Site contact: Jonathan Coleman, MD · 646-422-4432

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (Consent and Follow-Up)

    Uniondale, NY 11553

    Site contact: Jonathan Coleman, MD · 646-422-4432

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Jonathan Coleman, MD · 646-422-4432
  • Kenneth Offit, MD · 646-888-4050
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