PanBioCancer Biobank, Canada

Registration Status: Completed

Objective: The PanBioCancer Biobank is a shared BC Research Resource intended to facilitate cancer research across the province and across all tumour types. All patients suspected or diagnosed with cancer will be asked to sign a Consent to: o provide a blood sample o allow access to FFPE tissue o allow access to all medical records registries and other clinical databases for the duration of their involvement with BC Cancer/PHSA o give permission to be contacted for future research

Registered Biobank Name	PanBioCancer Biobank
Biobank Leader	Gurpal Athwal
Country	Canada
Email for biobank inquiries	gurpal.athwal@bccancer.bc.ca
Principal Investigator	Dr. Stephen Chia
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).