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Curing Cancer. We united 56 world-leading breast cancer researchers & identified one of the biggest barriers to research-lack of access to quality breast tissue. Our response-the world’s first national breast cancer tissue bank. It will provide tissue for UK researchers (future aim = worldwide use)
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Situation
Scientists need more materials with full and complete patient information for their research - “Despite decades of research, we still have only three biomarkers [chemicals that show the presence or state of a disease] for breast cancer, and we’re not very good at telling which cancers will become resistant to some treatments. We need tissue from a wide range of people to answer these questions.” Professor Jones, from Bart’s and the London - The Bank will provide this much-needed material.
Solution
Our bank will build up a completely unique picture of breast cancer and how it develops and give scientists access to a previously unavailable collection of linked evidence about breast cancer. The Tissue Bank will help fast track breast cancer research from the laboratory to the clinic. This bank of material will help us to better understand how to prevent, diagnose, treat, and in the long-term, cure breast cancer.