Protocol for Collecting, Banking and Distributing Human Tissue Samples: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Tissue Resources Core Facility

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Conditions studied: Normal and Diseased Tissue and Body Fluids Samples

In brief

The aims of this protocol are: to collect and store diseased and normal tissue and body fluid samples from new and returning patients at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (SJCRH), affiliated sites and collaborating institutions; to collect and store samples from relatives of SJCRH patients; to collect and store retrospective and prospective pertinent corresponding clinical and laboratory data on disease characterization, treatment, and outcome; and to serve as a source of human biological samples and corresponding laboratory and clinical data.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01354002

Run by

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

People needed

100000

Starts

2009-09-01

Expected to finish

2050-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-29

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients (and their relatives) and control populations treated or studied at SJCRH and SJCRH affiliates and collaborating sites that have IRB approval for TBANK with malignant and non-malignant conditions.
• Patients from institutions that do not have Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for TBANK, and at which a banking mechanism may not be established, who provide samples for research at St. Jude and from whom consent for TBANK is obtained by the TBANK principal investigator (PI).
• Samples from employees of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (SJCRH) collected for public health surveillance studies (e.g. SJTRC-NCT04362995) provided the employees have consented to participate in the specific IRB-approved studies.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients from institutions that do not have IRB approval for TBANK, and who have not provided consent for TBANK, or patients not enrolled on SJCRH protocols that incorporate consent for tumor banking.

Where it is running

• Cook Children's Medical Center — Fort Worth, Texas, United States (enrolling)
• Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford University — Palo Alto, California, United States (enrolling)
• Rady Children's Hospital and Health Center — San Diego, California, United States (enrolling)
• Children's Hospital of Illinois at OSF-Saint Francis Medical Center — Peoria, Illinois, United States (enrolling)
• Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center — Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States (enrolling)
• Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center — Shreveport, Louisiana, United States (enrolling)
• St. Jude Clinic at Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children — Huntsville, Alabama, United States (enrolling)
• Mercy Children's Hospital - Springfield — Springfield, Missouri, United States (enrolling)
• St. Jude Affiliate Clinic at Novant Health Hemby Children's Hospital — Charlotte, North Carolina, United States (enrolling)
• St. Jude Affiliate Clinic at Saint Francis Children's Hospital — Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States (enrolling)
• Johnson City Medical Center — Johnson City, Tennessee, United States (enrolling)
• LeBonheur Children's Hospital — Memphis, Tennessee, United States (enrolling)
• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — Memphis, Tennessee, United States (enrolling)
• Children's Hospital of Michigan — Detroit, Michigan, United States

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