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The ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Project (PCAWG), known as the Pan-Cancer Project, a collaboration involving more than 1,300 scie

Biorepositories (or biobanks) play an important role in many types of research.

Ontario Tumour Bank is conducting a survey to better understand future biospecimen and data needs of oncology researchers.

Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a gold-standard biobank?

A NEW tool for early detection, diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of human tumours.

Congratulations to Ontario Tumour Bank on a successful first 10 years.

The Ontario Tumour Bank (OTB) will supply ovarian tumour samples to the Canadian Ovarian Cancer Experimental Unified Resource (COEUR) in an effort to further enhance ovarian cancer research in Canada, announced Dr. John Bartlett, Provincial Principal Investigator, OTB and Director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research’s (OICR) Transformative Pathology Program.

Ontario Tumour Bank (OTB) is a program of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) in Ontario, Canada. We are a provincial biorepository funded by the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation. Our program encompasses four large teaching hospitals across the province: The London Health Sciences Centre, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, The Ottawa Hospital, and Kingston General Hospital. We focus on the collection of tumour and blood samples and related clinical data from over 30 types of cancers, and distributes these materials to qualified academic and industry researchers (www.ontariotumourbank.ca).

For researchers across Canada, and around the world, obtaining high quality tumour samples for cancer research can be a challenge - particularly for rare cancer types. London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has been helping to address that challenge since 2004, collecting over one third of the tumour samples available to researchers through Ontario Tumour Bank (OTB), a provincial biobank owned and managed by the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, a not-for-profit organization. LHSC is one of four collection centres making up OTB, which in May passed the 10,000 donor milestone.

Ontario Tumour Bank (OTB) is celebrating a milestone. It's now banked samples from more than 10,000 donors and Kingston General Hospital is a big part of that success.
Since the program began at our hospital in 2005, over 1,700 donors from Kingston and across the region have provided over 2,000 samples to it.

Dr. Tom Hudson, President and Scientific Director of Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), today announced that Ontario Tumour Bank (OTB) has now banked samples from more than 10,000 donors. This is an important milestone for OTB, a province-wide biorepository and data bank led by OICR that is focused on the collection of tumour-related blood and tissue samples for cancer research.