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

RecruitingN/A

Sponsor: Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Conditions: Lung Cancer

Interventions: gene expression analysis, microarray analysis, protein expression analysis, biologic sample preservation procedure, laboratory biomarker analysis

Countries: United States

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 overview

Sex: ALL

Age: 18 Years to 120 Years

Healthy volunteers: No

Study type: OBSERVATIONAL

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

* 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
* Tumor specimen samples must be available at resection

Exclusion criteria

* Chemotherapy before surgery
* Radiotherapy before surgery

Locations (3)

Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Nashville, Tennessee, United States