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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

Sambit K Mohanty1 email, Amita T Mistry1 email, Waqas Amin1 email, Anil V Parwani1,2 email, Andrew K Pople1 email, Linda Schmandt1 email, Sharon B Winters1 email, Erin Milliken3 email, Paula Kim3 email, Nancy B Whelan1 email, Ghada Farhat4 email, Jonathan Melamed5 email, Emanuela Taioli4 email, Rajiv Dhir3 email, Harvey I Pass6 email and Michael J Becich1,2 email

Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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

Translating Research Across Communities, USA

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

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

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, 8:91doi:10.1186/1471-2407-8-91

Published: 8 April 2008

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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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