Proteases in Patients With Prostate Cancer That Has Spread to the Bone

Completed

Conditions studied: Anemia, Metastatic Cancer, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Precancerous Condition, Prostate Cancer

In brief

RATIONALE: Collecting and storing samples of bone marrow and tissue from patients to test in the laboratory may help the study of cancer. PURPOSE: This laboratory study is comparing proteases (enzymes that break down protein) in patients with prostate cancer that has spread to the bone with patients who do not have cancer that has spread to the bone.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00899665

Run by

Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute

People needed

31

Starts

2001-07-01

Expected to finish

2008-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-02-11

Who can join

Age: 40 and older. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

• Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute — Detroit, Michigan, United States

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