Harvesting Cells for Experimental Cancer Treatments This study
will collect white blood cells from normal volunteers and white
blood cells or tumor cells, or both, from patients with
melanoma, kidney cancer, and ovarian cancer. The cells will be
processed and used in experimental treatment studies for the
patients under another protocol. The cells collected from
patients will be processed in the laboratory to give them
special tumor-fighting ability. The cells collected from normal
volunteers will be used as growth factors for the cells during
the period of laboratory growth. The experimental therapy for
which these cells will be used is called adoptive cell therapy.
Patients in this study who are eligible for this experimental
treatment will be enrolled in a subsequent treatment protocol,
in which their treated cells will be returned to them for
evaluation as a cancer-fighting therapy. This protocol deals
only with collection and treatment of the cells from patients
and healthy volunteers. Healthy normal vol