BMC Cancer

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An informatics model for tissue banks – Lessons learned from the Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource

Ashokkumar A Patel1, John R Gilbertson1, Anil V Parwani1, Rajiv Dhir1, Milton W Datta2, Rajnish Gupta1, Jules J Berman3, Jonathan Melamed4, Andre Kajdacsy-Balla5, Jan Orenstein6, Michael J Becich1* and the Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource

  • * Corresponding author: Michael J Becich becich@pitt.edu

  • † Equal contributors

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Pathology, Center for Pathology Informatics, Benedum Oncology Informatics Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2 Departments of Pathology and Urology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

3 Cancer Diagnosis Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

4 Departments of Pathology, New York University, New York, NY, USA

5 Departments of Pathology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

6 Departments of Pathology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

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BMC Cancer 2006, 6:120 doi:10.1186/1471-2407-6-120

Published: 5 May 2006

Additional files

Additional File 1:

CPCTR Manual of Operations. The Manual of Operations details the governance, protocols and guidelines that were created and used by the Resource.

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