Healthy Human Control Blood Collection for Validation of Biomarker Assay

Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Blood collection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02302885

UPCC 42914

Details and patient eligibility

About

Human blood will be collected to serve as control in validating clinical studies studying the detection and levels of circulating tumor cells and microvesicles in cancer patients. Targeted population is cancer-free 18-60 year old men and women. Volunteer selection will rely upon a short health questionnaire. About 20 mL blood will be collected from volunteers up to 20 different timepoints. The Procedure involves minimal risk of harm (eg discomfort, bruising) to the volunteer.

Enrollment: 43 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age range: 18-60 years old Gender: Male and Female

Exclusion criteria

• No previously diagnosed malignancy Age: It is important to obtain a healthy, cancer-free volunteer population to serve as negative controls for this detection assay.