Longitudinal Bank for Serum, Plasma and DNA for Detection of Biomarkers

Technical Report · Sat Jan 31 04:00:00 EST 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/959424· OSTI ID:959424

Ward, David C. ^[1]

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1. Nevada Cancer Institute, Las Vegas, NV (United States); Nevada Cancer Institute

With the support of this DOE appropriation, NVCI has established a biorepository for serum, plasma, DNA and urine specimens. Over 2,500 patients have been consented which is over 90% of all new patients seen at NVCI. The specimens have been coded, centrifuged, aliquoted and frozen at -80°C in a rapid manner so that they are all processed in less than 1 hour from the acquisition. There are over 28,000 aliquoted, coded tubes in our inventory. Specimens from 200 control volunteer subjects without any history of cancer also have been banked. The patient specimens are encoded and the demographics and therapeutic treatments are linked to the Oncore software. This computer program catalogues the specimens and provides a rapid conduit between the biorepository and the NVCI electronic medical record.

• Research Organization: Nevada Cancer Institute, Las Vegas, NV (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-06ER64280
• OSTI ID: 959424
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER.--64280-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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