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Lead
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
With
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
For patients:
All patients with benign or malignant tumors of the soft tissues, gastrointestinal tract, and other intra-abdominal sites who will have or have had tissue, peritoneal, pleural, cyst, urine, and/or other gastrointestinal fluid removed for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes.
Patients will be entered without preference for any particular racial/ethnic group.
Patients may have received prior hormonal therapy, cytotoxic chemotherapy, irradiation, immunotherapy or surgical therapy.
Tissue and body fluid specimens must be a large enough quantity to allow routine pathological analysis, with the research laboratory specimen removed from the residual specimen which would otherwise be discarded.
Healthy Control Subjects:
Any male or female with no concurrent malignancies (except for localized basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer) within 5 years of enrollment.
\> or = to 18 years of age
You may not be if
Healthy Control Subjects:
Attending physicians authorized to obtain informed consent may exercise discretion in excluding individuals for appropriate medical or other (e.g. mentally impaired) reasons.
