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A great deal of effort is being put into cancer research worldwide trying to find it’s causes and cure. These efforts rely heavily on specimens of cancer tissue. To undertake a research project on human tissue, researchers need to obtain patient consent and ethics approval from hospital and educational institutions before the collection of tissue can be undertaken.
In 1991, Professor David Gotley
established the Tumour Tissue Bank at the Princess
Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, so that researchers had access to
tissues where patient consent and the appropriate ethics approval had
already been obtained. This not only promotes cancer research but also
encourages researchers.
During the past 12 years, over 2500
patients have voluntarily contributed tumour specimens for cancer
research.
The Tumour Tissue Bank contains
collections of a wide variety of tumour tissue and where possible
matched non-tumour tissue. Our samples are ideal for RNA and DNA
extraction, with most cases having samples of frozen section material
and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue for slide material. The
suite of techniques available from our collection include; PCR, Real
Time PCR, DNA array, in situ hybridisation, immunohistochemistry and
histology, including special stains.
Additional information on clinical
background and pathology may be available on request, within the
confines of patient confidentiality.
All facets of the Tumour Tissue Bank
is conducted under international codes of ethical research practice as
set out by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC) and
the P. A. Hospital Research Foundation Ethics Committee.
Website updated 28/3/08
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