The BCR concept has significant benefits for customers, the bank, cancer research, and society more broadly; however, it is not without its limitations, namely how is the funding for a bank able to be obtained? Details of the concept are presented and who should be targeted together with ...
UK Biobank was established by the Medical Research Council (UK) (MRC), Wellcome, the UK Department of Health, and the Scottish Government in response to the challenge of understanding the determinants of common complex disease [8]. Participants have been followed up for over a decade, and ther...
Research discoveries at TMUCIH are facilitated by its advanced platforms. It has built a bio-sample bank in accordance with international standards, collecting more than 59,000 tissue samples and 100,000-plus blood samples, representing more than 20 common tumour malignancies. A specialized informati...
The first sparks of cancer models were formed more than 200 years ago when the first report of cancer by environmental factors was presented [1]. In recent century, mice have been widely used in biological research and have made significant contributions to cancer discoveries as a bedrock for c...
We have taken advantage of a unique research resource: The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center (KTB), a biorepository of normal, healthy breast tissue, to complete the first ever next-generation transcriptome sequencing of epithelial compartment of 20 normal ...
A human ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma cell line, OVMANA, and a high-grade ovarian serous adenocarcinoma (HGSOC) cell line OVKATE, were obtained from the Japanese Collection of Research Bioresources (JCRB) Cell Bank (Tokyo, Japan). One human ovarian cancer adenocarcinoma cell line, CAOV3 [...
This work was in part, supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81071718, 81000881, 30973400, and 30670990), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (21611612), Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, NCET (NCET-06-0685), the Traditional Chines...
Breast Cancer Research volume 13, Article number: R63 (2011) Cite this article 14k Accesses 59 Citations 1 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract Introduction Women with triple-negative breast cancer have the worst prognosis, frequently present with metastatic tumors and have few targeted therapy options...
Cancer research currently is heavily skewed toward high-income countries (HICs), with little research conducted in, and relevant to, the problems of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This regional discordance in cancer knowledge generation and application needs to be rebalanced. Several gaps...
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