Research article
The development and deployment of Common Data Elements for tissue banks for translational research in cancer – An emerging standard based approach for the Mesothelioma Virtual Tissue Bank
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* Corresponding author: Sambit K Mohanty mohantys2@upmc.edu
1 Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2 Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
3 Translating Research Across Communities, USA
4 Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, 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
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:91 doi:10.1186/1471-2407-8-91
Published: 8 April 2008Additional files
Additional file 1:
IRB protocol for the Mesothelioma Virtual Bank project.
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Additional file 2:
IRB approval letter for the Mesothelioma Virtual Bank project.
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Additional file 3:
Honest Broker services for Tissue Banks and Clinical data.
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Additional file 4:
Common Data Elements data dictionary with metadata and valid values.
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Data collection template for the Mesothelioma Virtual Bank project.
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Paraffin Tissue MicroArray template for the Mesothelioma Virtual Bank project.
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Tissue Bank Workflow for MVB across the institutions.
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CDC MVB Tissue Request Work Flow Chart.
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