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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 21.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2020 May 1;29(12):2401–2410. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0237

Table 1:

EDRN Biospecimen Reference Sets

Reference Set Type of Specimens Participants
#
Participant Groups
Bladder Cancer Serum, whole urine, DNA from blood 497 Bladder cancer cases
Healthy controls
High Risk controls
Breast Cancer Serum, plasma, buffy coat 832 Pre-diagnosis specimens
DCIS cases
Invasive cancer cases
LCIS cases
Benignlater cancer cases
Normallater cancer cases
Benign Disease Atypia controls
Benign Disease non-Atypia controls
Normal controls
Cancers in Women Endometrium, Ovary, Breast Serum, plasma 536 Cases (pooled)
Controls (pooled)
Colon Cancer Serum, plasma, whole urine 150 Cases
Adenoma controls
Normal controls
Liver Cancer Serum, plasma 871 Cases
Controls
Lung Cancer Serum, plasma 1,205 Cases
Controls
High risk controls with CT nodule
High risk controls with no CT nodule
Pancreatic Cancer Serum, plasma 255 Cases
Controls
Prostate Cancer Serum, plasma, buffy coat, RNA, supernatant fluid, whole urine 900 Initial Biopsy w/ Cancer cases
Repeat Biopsy w/Cancer cases
Confirmed but no biopsy controls
Initial Biopsy w/o Cancer controls
Repeat Biopsy w/o Cancer controls
Prostate Cancer (retrospective) Serum 663 Cases
Controls