Multiple Tumor Types - Moonshot Biobank 10323

The Cancer Moonshot Biobank was started by the National Cancer Institute to help researchers better understand and treat cancer. The Moonshot Biobank will ask cancer patients across the United States to donate biospecimens (blood and small pieces of tissue removed during medical procedures) and associated health information. The Moonshot Biobank will collect biospecimens longitudinally, that is, over the whole period of time that a person is getting cancer treatment. The biospecimens and associated health information will be made available to qualified cancer scientists to help those researchers learn how cancer grows and changes in people, and to find new cancer treatments. To help make sure that cancer patients from all population groups can potentially benefit from the research, cancer patients from diverse racial, cultural, ethnic and socioeconomic groups will be asked to participate in the Biobank.

Participants will be randomized to an exercise and medical nutrition intervention arm with weekly counseling sessions throughout chemotherapy, or a control arm.

Criteria: You may be eligible if you:

  • Have been diagnosed with locally advanced or metastatic:
    • Colon cancer
    • Lung cancer
    • Prostate cancer
    • Breast cancer
    • Ovarian cancer
    • Melanoma
    • Gastroesophageal cancer
    • Multiple myeloma
    • Acute myeloid leukemia
  • Are being treated at a hospital that is taking part in the Biobank
  • Are receiving standard treatment (not experimental treatment)
  • Are at least 13 years old

Location: HH

Contacts: Josh Lopez 860.972.5361 [email protected]; Emily Whitman 860.972.4101 Emily [email protected]; Jonelle James 860.972.5749 [email protected]

Sponsor: NCI

Cancer Clinical Research Office