Louisville Cooperative Tissue Biorepository (LCTB)

University of Louisville (UOFL)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Normal and Abnormal Tissue

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02021916

397.05

Details and patient eligibility

About

To provide appropriate collection, storage, and distribution of specimens and medical data to local investigators who have approved IRB protocols for their specific research purposes.

Full description

The mission of the Louisville Cooperative Tissue Biorepository is to appropriately collect normal and abnormal tissues that are removed from the human body as a part of standard medical and surgical practice after adequate portions are secured by surgical pathologists to allow for correct diagnoses to be made. The LCTB securely stores appropriately collected human samples for research purposes and appropriately allocates these samples to local investigators for research purposes. The LCTB team appropriately documents all points in the process of obtaining informed consent, collection, storage, and allocation of tissues.

Enrollment: 17,499 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients undergoing surgery for removal or normal and abnormal tissues as part of standard medical and surgical practice

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with known systematic infections including septic patients with bacterial and viral infections, hepatitis, HIV, TB and other defined pathogens will not be included.