Clinical Trials

• Biospecimen Resource for Familial Pancreas Research, a Data and Tissue Registry (also known as a bio-repository, bio-bank, data and tissue database, data and tissue bank, etc.) to Help Advance Research in Familial Pancreas Disease.
  The research staff is collecting clinical and family histories, blood and/or tissue samples from family members of patients diagnosed with pancreatic diseases, including pancreatic cancer and melanoma. This will help the researchers to learn whether inherited factors increase the risk of pancreatic diseases, pancreatic cancer, or other cancers. These future studies could involve searching for changes in the genetic material (DNA) taken from blood and/or tissue. The information and samples will be used in future research studies.Some of the future research studies could involve genetic testing. Because the genetic tests are not used for regular medical care, the patient will not be told the results of the test(s). The test results will not be put in the patient's medical record either.
  

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