This study will collect tumor specimens with correlated clinical and demographic data from patients who are undergoing a biopsy or similar procedure to obtain tumor tissue as a normal course of their medical management or diagnostic work-up for suspected or confirmed cancer.
Able and willing to provide informed consent for participation
Age ≥18 years at time of consent.
Have a suspected or confirmed cancer diagnosis that is to be evaluated by means of a biopsy.
Subjects who are newly diagnosed or have suspected cancer must be treatment-naïve at the time of biopsy. All other subjects should have the biopsy performed before starting their next line of treatment.
Have a known auto-immune disease or prior condition (prior organ transplant, chronic kidney or liver disease) that renders them ineligible for immunotherapy (IO) treatment.
Severely immunocompromised person(s). Examples include patients on immunosuppressants, HIV positive patients on antiretrovirals, post transplantation patients.
Pregnant person(s).
Elephas
Lead sponsor