🏛️ Verified NIH Record • Updated 2026-03-12
Bladder Bank (a Prospective Banking Study) (NCT06109857)
🟢 Recruiting Interventional Protocol 📊 Observational Clinical Research Sponsor: Mayo Clinic
🩺 Plain-English Summary (8th-Grade Level)
This study collects blood and urine samples from patients with bladder cancer to support the development of tests for early detection of bladder cancer.
Who can join: To join this study, participants generally need to meet the listed inclusion criteria (2 items) and avoid the listed exclusions (11 items).
Location: Mayo Clinic in Rochester — Rochester, Minnesota
📋 "Do I Qualify?" — 1-Minute Self Screener
Instant ChecklistCheck every box below. If you can check all of them, you may meet the study's basic screening requirements (final eligibility is confirmed by the site team).
Usually NOT eligible if any of the following apply:
- Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient has known cancer outside of the target cancer 5 years prior to current collection (not including basal cell or squamous cell skin cancers; if patient has not been seen or if information is not available, the patient is eligible)
- Patient has recurrent muscle invasive bladder cancer
- Patient has ever been previously diagnosed with UTUC (upper tract urothelial carcinoma) prior to bladder resection
- Patient has received chemotherapy class drugs for the treatment of non-target origin cancer in the 5 years prior to current collection
- Patient has had any prior radiation therapy to the target lesion prior to current collection
- Patient has had a biopsy to the target organ and/or lesion within 3 days before collection
- Patient has undergone cystectomy or cystoprostatectomy
- Patient has transurethral instrumentation (placement of urinary catheter) within 7 days prior to urine collection
- Patient has had a urinary tract infection within 14 days prior to urine collection
- Patient has chronic indwelling urinary catheter
🔍 Extracted verbatim from the official NIH eligibility criteria. Always confirm with the study coordinator.
📍 All Participating Trial Locations (1 Sites)
- Mayo Clinic in Rochester — Rochester, Minnesota
💰 Cost, Insurance & Patient Rights
- 100% Free Items: The investigational treatment and protocol-required procedures are supplied at zero cost by the sponsor.
- Routine Patient Care: Under federal law (ACA § 2709) and many state statutes, routine care costs are covered during participation.
- Voluntary Participation: You may withdraw at any time without affecting your standard medical care.