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Tissue Sample Collection From Patients With Head and Neck Cancer and From Healthy Participants

Vanderbilt University Medical Center · with National Cancer Institute (NCI) · NCT00898638

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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
8000
US sites recruiting
4
Study start
February 13, 2003
Record last updated
October 28, 2025

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

What the study is about

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.

Being studied: biologic sample preservation procedure; medical chart review

Conditions: Head and Neck Cancer

Eligibility criteria

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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

Recruiting US locations

  • Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center - Cool Springs

    Nashville, TN 37064

    Site contact: Eben Rosenthal, MD · 800-811-8480

  • Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center at Franklin

    Nashville, TN 37064

    Site contact: Eben Rosenthal, MD · 800-811-8480

  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Nashville

    Nashville, TN 37212

    Site contact: Clinical Trials Office - Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Nas · 615-327-4751

  • Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

    Nashville, TN 37232-6838

    Site contact: Clinical Trials Office - Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center · 800-811-8480

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Brandee Brown · 615-936-4896 · brandee.t.brown@vumc.org
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