RM PCa Research Tissue Bank

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  310967

• Research summary

  The Royal Marsden Prostate Cancer Research Tissue Bank

• REC name

  North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 2

• REC reference

  22/NS/0048

• Date of REC Opinion

  22 Apr 2022

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  The Research Tissue Bank will hold a mix of existing biological material collected from patients as part of the routine clinical care pathway and samples collected specifically for future research. In either event, no samples will be collected nor subsequently stored in the Research Tissue Bank unless a patient provides their written informed consent and this is documented.

  Samples to be collected are tumour tissue, blood, saliva and urine.

  Patients have the option of providing only one or two prospective sample types (e.g. blood and saliva, but not urine) or declining to provide any prospective samples as long as they agree to donate their archival tumour tissue sample, as patients will be required to provide at least 1 sample type for the Research Tissue Bank.

• Research programme

  The RM Prostate Cancer Research Tissue Bank aims to facilitate prostate cancer research that contributes to an advancement in knowledge of the development, treatment and outcomes of prostate cancer, by obtaining and storing donor samples which can be used for future ethically approved research which has not yet been formulated into a specific project(s). One research area of particular interest at the time of writing this protocol is the discovery of biomarkers, molecular targets and profiles related to prognostic and predictive markers of disease but also disease progression and disease outcome.

• Storage license

  30000

• RTBTitle

  The Royal Marsden Prostate Cancer Research Tissue Bank

• Establishment organisation

  The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

• Establishment organisation address

  Chelsea Site

  Fulham Road

  London

  SW3 6JJ