How is the GIST Collaborative Tissue Bank different?
The Life Raft Group (LRG), which maintains the largest patient-provided clinical database in the world, has joined with cancer researchers to create a one-of-a-kind tissue bank, where patient tissue is linked to their GIST clinical histories. The Collaborative Tissue Bank has been designed to: · Allow multiple researchers to share rare tissue. · Maintain patient privacy: identifying information will be removed from tissue samples and patient clinical histories. · Create a system for researchers to share data thereby speeding up communication of vital results and reducing duplication of efforts. Stanford University (http://tma.stanford.edu) will host the shared data generated by the researchers and link to the LRG Patient Registry.
