Healthy donors give blood to help calibrate new cancer detection tool

NCT ID NCT02302885

Summary

This study collected small blood samples from healthy volunteers to create comparison samples for validating a new blood test that detects cancer cells. Researchers needed cancer-free blood to properly test their detection method in future cancer patients. The study involved 43 healthy adults who donated blood up to 20 times to help establish baseline measurements.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

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