Collecting and Analyzing Tissue Samples From Patients Undergoing Surgery for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

ConditionLung Cancer

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot listed

Trial typeObservational

Biological sexAll

Age18-120

SponsorVanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

About this trial

RATIONALE: Studying samples of tumor tissue from patients with cancer in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about changes that may occur in RNA and identify biomarkers related to cancer.

PURPOSE: This research study is collecting and analyzing lung tissue samples from patients undergoing surgery for non-small cell lung cancer.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer

Clinical stage I and II disease

Resectable disease and complete surgical resection planned

Treated on companion studies at Vanderbilt University, the Veterans Administration hospital, St. Thomas, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Affiliate Network

Disqualifiers

Chemotherapy before surgery

Radiotherapy before surgery

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

gene expression analysis
microarray analysis
protein expression analysis
biologic sample preservation procedure
laboratory biomarker analysis
matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry

Treatment groups

4,000 Participants

are divided into 1 treatment group

Sponsors and collaborators

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Lead sponsor

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov