Pancreatic and Gastrointestinal Tumor Registry and Tissue Collection (SPORE)

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pancreatic Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00584363

2P50CA101955 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

F040514008

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to collect pancreatic tissue, blood and urine from adults to study pancreatic abnormalities.

Full description

The aim of the study is to standardize, collect and share pancreatic cancer related information, to be used for research purposes only by researchers from different participating institutions/centers.

Enrollment: 731 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Person over 19 years of age, patient with a tissue-proven diagnosis of pancreatic cancer at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) University Hospital during the period, and cognitive ability to provide informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Person not 19 or older and have not had a tissue-proven diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.