Malignant pleural mesothelioma causes the greatest societal burden of all the asbestos-related diseases. Progress in better understanding tumour biology will be facilitated by the availability of quality-assured annotated tissue. MesobanK has been created to establish a bioresource of pleural mesothelioma tissue linked to detailed anonymised clinical data. When complete, the bioresource will comprise a 750-patient tissue microarray and prospectively collected tissue, blood and pleural fluid from 300 patients with mesothelioma. Twenty-six new cell lines have also been developed. MesobanK meets all appropriate ethical and regulatory procedures and has recently opened to requests for tissue and data. (Source: Thorax)
from MedWorm: Mesothelioma http://medworm.com/index.php?rid=170089539&cid=c_409_40_f&fid=28723&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthorax.bmj.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F71%2F4%2F380%3Frss%3D1
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