Biomarker Analysis of Solid Cancers Such as Gastrointestinal Cancer

Samsung Medical Center

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Sarcoma

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01831609

2011-07-089-013

Details and patient eligibility

About

To prospectively collect ascites, pleural fluid, circulating tumor cells and derived primary cultures from metastatic cancer patients. The specimens will be analyzed using DNA/RNA/proteomic approaches.

Enrollment: 1,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Patients with histologically confirmed gastrointestinal, genitourinary, sarcoma, rare cancer
2. Written informed consent
3. body fluid derived from cancer, available for drainage and collection

Exclusion criteria

• patients who do not give informed consent form for research use of biomaterials/biospecimens