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National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank: A standard based biospecimen and clinical data resource to enhance translational research

Waqas Amin1*, Anil V Parwani1,2, Linda Schmandt1, Sambit K Mohanty1, Ghada Farhat3, Andrew K Pople1, Sharon B Winters1, Nancy B Whelan1, Althea M Schneider1, John T Milnes1, Federico A Valdivieso4, Michael Feldman4, Harvey I Pass6, Rajiv Dhir2, Jonathan Melamed5 and Michael J Becich1,2

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1 Departments of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2 Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA

3 Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

4 Department of Pathology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

5 Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

6 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Oncology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

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BMC Cancer 2008, 8:236 doi:10.1186/1471-2407-8-236

Published: 13 August 2008

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Honest Broker services for Tissue Banks and Clinical data.

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