Manchester Cancer Research Centre Biobank

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  240630

• Research summary

  Manchester Cancer Research Centre Biobank - collection of biological samples for cancer research

• REC name

  North West - Greater Manchester South Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  18/NW/0092

• Date of REC Opinion

  22 May 2018

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  The Biobank will collect tissue, blood and other samples from patients admitted to hospitals in the Greater Manchester area, who are undergoing an operation to remove tissue where cancer is a possible diagnosis. Before new patients are recruited to the Biobank, a Biobank Technician will take informed consent from patients to use their surplus tissue and data about them for research.\n

• Research programme

  In recent years a lot of progress has been made in understanding cancer.\nHowever, more research needs to be done to help us understand the causes of cancer and also to discover new methods for diagnosis and treatment. It is very important that we have a large number of tissue, blood and other samples from people with and without cancer to allow this extra research to take place. Information about the people who give samples will be securely stored and is necessary so that we can relate what we find in our research to what happens to patients. This is because cancer is not a single disease and the way it affects individuals varies from person­to­ person. The Manchester Cancer Research Centre Biobank aims to help researchers by collecting large numbers of samples from people with and without cancer. Ethically approved research groups and also\npharmaceutical companies, who make new cancer drugs and medicines, will use the samples collected. The bank will be of great benefit to clinical researchers, whose work relies on the analysis of donated human samples.\n

• Storage license

  30004

• RTBTitle

  Manchester Cancer Research Centre Biobank - collection of biological samples for cancer research

• Establishment organisation

  The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

• Establishment organisation address

  Wilmslow Road

  Manchester

  M20 4BX