Ontario Tumour Bank Cases
This inventory is updated quarterly. Last updated on June 19, 2020.
Total Cases: 21,439
Total Samples: 140,578
Inventory numbers indicate total number of cases of all histologies for each disease site. Any additional selection criteria may reduce the total number of available cases.
| Fresh Frozen Tumour | Fresh Frozen Normal Adjacent | Paraffin Embedded Tumour | Paraffin Embedded Normal Adjacent | Fresh Frozen Buffy Coat | Fresh Frozen Plasma | Fresh Frozen Cell-Free Plasma | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anal | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 1 |
| Bladder | 119 | 57 | 107 | 41 | 168 | 237 | 14 |
| Breast | 1,096 | 437 | 760 | 239 | 1,116 | 1,095 | 180 |
| Central Nervous System | 16 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 0 |
| Cervical | 39 | 4 | 42 | 8 | 102 | 110 | 0 |
| Colorectal | 2,616 | 2,217 | 2,395 | 2,078 | 1,599 | 2,406 | 298 |
| Endocrine (includes thyroid) | 230 | 81 | 170 | 46 | 178 | 197 | 4 |
| Esophageal | 169 | 132 | 82 | 131 | 292 | 306 | 7 |
| Gastric | 204 | 164 | 184 | 145 | 189 | 221 | 15 |
| Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour | 48 | 9 | 40 | 3 | 22 | 23 | 15 |
| Gross Metastatic Disease | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Head and Neck | 202 | 30 | 140 | 24 | 222 | 241 | 29 |
| Hepatic, Biliary Tree | 53 | 35 | 43 | 30 | 18 | 38 | 9 |
| Hodgkin's Disease | 14 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
| Lung | 2,082 | 1,949 | 1,850 | 1,651 | 1,977 | 2,357 | 287 |
| Melanoma | 194 | 11 | 185 | 17 | 162 | 157 | 15 |
| Mesothelioma | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 0 |
| Neuroendocrine | 47 | 11 | 44 | 9 | 33 | 50 | 10 |
| Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas | 81 | 12 | 56 | 11 | 42 | 63 | 2 |
| Other | 99 | 15 | 97 | 17 | 89 | 106 | 13 |
| Ovarian, Fallopian or Peritoneal | 1,222 | 29 | 1,243 | 36 | 1,214 | 1,246 | 171 |
| Pancreatic | 112 | 25 | 114 | 31 | 65 | 108 | 5 |
| Prostate | 0 | 0 | 1,617 | 5 | 2,844 | 2,573 | 1,179 |
| Renal and Ureter | 1,905 | 1,351 | 1,739 | 1,274 | 812 | 1,546 | 357 |
| Sarcomas of Bone | 21 | 4 | 19 | 4 | 20 | 24 | 1 |
| Skin- Non Melanomas | 95 | 12 | 97 | 10 | 79 | 88 | 13 |
| Small Intestine | 77 | 33 | 74 | 31 | 61 | 78 | 10 |
| Soft Tissue Sarcoma | 365 | 49 | 369 | 46 | 303 | 350 | 44 |
| Testicular | 64 | 18 | 61 | 16 | 47 | 53 | 6 |
| Unknown | 78 | 19 | 76 | 18 | 77 | 88 | 4 |
| Urethral or Penile | 14 | 4 | 16 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 5 |
| Uterine | 1,439 | 181 | 1,342 | 132 | 1,481 | 1,575 | 323 |
| Vulva, Vagina | 64 | 7 | 68 | 8 | 90 | 93 | 8 |
