BCLQ Lymphoma, Canada

Registration Status: Completed

Objective: The main objective of the lymphoma bank is to suply primary patient cells to promote research in lymphoma and lymphocyte dysfunction. It was established in 2010 in accordance with the ethics protocols and procedures of the Banque de cellule leucemique du Quebec located at Hopital Maisonneuve Rosemont and Cancer Research Network. It banks both tissue (disease and normal) and blood-related (whole blood, plasma and serum) specimens of patients with blood-related cancers or immunological dysfunction.

Registered Biobank Name	BCLQ Lymphoma
Biobank Leader	Liliana Stoica
Country	Canada
Email for biobank inquiries	lilia_stoica@yahoo.ca
Principal Investigator	Dr. Nathalie Johnson
Website
User Type Mono: A biobank that supports a specific research project, may have few staff members, a small-scale accrual scope with little to no initial intention of releasing or distributing biospecimens to secondary parties Oligo: A biobank that supports several research groups or clinical trials, may or may not be designed to release biospecimens outside their collaborative group Poly: A biobank that has generally a larger accrual scope, resources, and multiple users outside the biobank proper

Biospecimen Collected:

Cohort Highlights

100 cases Next Generation Sequencing assay to detect all classes of genetic variant in Lung Cancer using a single Diagnostic test.
200 cases Colorectal TMA for QC purposes in support of study of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in ovarian cancer tissues.
Build 300 cases breast cancer TMA containing primary tumour and matched metastatic LN for various subtypes (luminal, HER2, Triple negative). Start with Triple negatives.
125 cases Breast tumour and metastatic lymph nodes in breast cancer cases with outcomes of metastasis to lung or bone.
100 cases of rare tumours - fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma. FFPE, frozen, BC.
200 cases of FFPE tissue sections from breast, lung adenocarcinoma, and lung squamous cell carcinoma with matching normal tissue (only pathology data requested).