Patients and Methods of the PATH Biobank - A Resource for Breast Cancer Research.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: The foundation PATH (Patients' Tumour Bank of Hope) collects in a tumour bank samples of blood, tumour, and tumour-near normal tissue from breast cancer patients and supplements them systematically with health-care data. Material and Methods: For patients from the diagnosis years 2006-2009 quantitative data were evaluated with the help of mean values and standard deviations while for qualitative data absolute and relative incidences were assessed. Demographic and clinical features of women who used different numbers of information sources were tested for statistical significance by means of ANOVA and χ² tests. The benchmark report of the WBC and two DMP reports were used to compare oncological care. Results: For research purposes tumour tissue

SUBMITTER: Waldmann A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4078118 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature