Pancreatic Cancer Collaborative Registry

Summary

RATIONALE: Gathering information about patients with cancer may help doctors learn more about the disease and plan early diagnosis and treatment.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying computer tools for improving early diagnosis and treatment in patients with pancreatic cancer, are at risk for pancreatic cancer, or have a non-cancerous pancreatic disorder.

Conditions

• Pancreatic Cancer

Interventions

OTHER

medical chart review

Medical information, called "protected health information" (PHI), which includes demographic information (like address and birth date), the results of physical exams, blood tests, x-rays and other diagnostic and medical procedures and treatments, as well as medical and surgical history will be accessed from the subject's medical record.

OTHER

questionnaire administration

Provide or complete personal information about themselves, their medical history, their diet and lifestyle habits, any past or current environmental exposures and to re-create their family tree for any cancers that have occurred in any of their family members. In accordance with OPRR guidelines, no identifying information such as name, address, or date of birth will be used for relatives, but the affected status (cancer, age of onset, age of death) will be recorded. This information will be collected by whichever method they prefer; completing the questionnaires on hardcopy (to then be entered into the PCCR by a data manager) or by logging on to the PCCR website to complete the questionnaires by obtaining a user id and password to enter their information directly into the PCCR. Study participants who are in the EDRN project are required to complete the questionnaires on hardcopy (to then be entered into the PCCR by a data manager).

OTHER

study of socioeconomic and demographic variables

Share the information they provided with the PCCR research collaborators. This national group has formed the PCCR and is dedicated to pooling their efforts against pancreatic cancer.

PROCEDURE

biopsy

Release a portion of pancreatic tissue, tumor tissue and/or metastatic pancreatic cancer tissue and/or paraffin embedded tissue that has already been collected and saved from their previous surgery or biopsy for storage in the UNMC Solid Tumor Bank for future studies done here or at collaborating institutions. All studies will be proposed in future IRB submissions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Cancer Institute (NCI)

  collaborator NIH

• University of Nebraska

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Quan Ly, MD · University of Nebraska

Eligibility

Min Age

19 Years

Max Age

100 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2003-02-28

Primary Completion

2013-09-09

Completion

2013-09-09

Countries

• United States

Study Locations