University of Saskatchewan Tumor Biobank, Canada

Certification Status: Approved

Registration Status: Completed

Objective: The scope of the biobank is to collect fresh and formalin-fixed benign and tumour tissue for patients who have consented to participate in the biobank and who have been diagnosed with an oncologic problem and are undergoing a surgical procedure(s) for diagnostic/therapeutic purposes. The option is also available to collect a research blood specimen(s) for biomarker assessment and/or future unknown research into the etiology/prognostic research related to cancer.

Registered Biobank Name	University of Saskatchewan Tumor Biobank
Biobank Leader	Sylvie Clairefond
Country	Canada
Email for biobank inquiries	sylvie.clairefond@usask.ca
Principal Investigator	Mary Kinloch
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).