Advancing the Care of Pancreatic Cancer Patients: Moving Beyond Just Tumour Tissue.

ABSTRACT: Biobanking efforts, to establish and grow the pool of available tissue from which evidence on aetiology, therapeutic susceptibility and prognosis of various diseases, have been underway for decades. This is illustrated nowhere better than in cancer. High incidence cancers such as breast, colorectal and lung have seen massive increases in their requisite formularies that have yielded improved prognoses. These discoveries, on a very fundamental level, were made by scientists who had access to tumour tissue and associated clinical data from patient donors. As the research space for higher incidence malignancies became increasingly crowded, attention has turned towards those malignancies with lower incidence. In the same time span, technology has continued to evolve, allowing the next generati

SUBMITTER: Kalloger SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8512230 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature