Info:
Tissue bank contains paraffin blocks, a limited number of frozen tissue samples, frozen buffy coat, plasma and serum, frozen urine and frozen saliva.
Services:
Access to the full pathology archive
Pre-cancerous, benign and malignant tumours and metastatic tumours to cover the different range samples we deal with;
- Barrett’s esophagus (disorder)
- Malignant tumor of colon (disorder)
- Malignant tumor of small intestine (disorder)
Tissue Bank Projects:
Diagnosing Colorectal Neoplasia using Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy
Delineating the difficulties in diagnosing Oesophageal Cancer destined to arise from Barretts Oesophagus from body fluid spectroscopy analysis
Pilot Study Validating the use of Biospectrometry Surveillance Barretts Oesophagus Surveillance
Address:
Pathology Research
Royal Preston Hospital
Preston, Lancashire
PR2 9HT
Info:
Archival genito-urinary tissue, blood, urine and saliva collection
Services:
Access to the full pathology archive
Pre-cancerous, benign and malignant tumours and metastatic tumours to cover the different range samples we deal with;
- Benign neoplasm of ovary (disorder)
- Malignant neoplasm of endometrium of corpus uteri (disorder)
- Malignant tumor of ovary (disorder)
Tissue Bank Projects:
Spectroscopy in blood, urine and ascitic fluid for ovarian cancer diagnosis, classification and prediction of recurrence
Spectrochemical diagnosis of endometrial cancer using biofluid analysis
Raman analysis of blood plasma/serum or urine samples from control versus endometrial cancer patients
Address:
Pathology Research
Royal Preston Hospital
Preston, Lancashire
PR2 9HT
Info:
Archival nervous system tissue and blood collection
Services:
Access to the full pathology archive
Pre-cancerous, benign and malignant tumours and metastatic tumours to cover the different range samples we deal with;
- Benign neoplasm of brain (disorder)
- Fit and well (finding)
- Malignant neoplasm of brain (disorder)
Address:
Pathology Research
Royal Preston Hospital
Preston, Lancashire
PR2 9HT
Info:
An archival CNS tissue bank containing fresh and formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue blocks (cancer and non cancer), urine, saliva and blood.
Samples stored:
Serum, plasma and paraffin blocks (frozen tissue & sputum coming soon)
Tissue Bank Projects:
Validation of the frequency of genetic aberrations in Glioblastoma and low-grade gliomas
Using next-generation sequencing to characterise human brain tumours and investigate disease progression and recurrence
Developing rapid spectroscopic serum diagnostics for primary and metastatic tumours
Characterization of novel local immunomodulatory mechanisms in melanoma brain metastasis
Classification and Characterisation of high-grade gliomas in teenagers and young adults
Samples collected by:
Blackpool Victoria Hospital
Whinney Heys Road
Blackpool, Lancashire
FY3 8NR
Address: (Banked under HTA licence)
Pathology Research
Royal Preston Hospital
Preston, Lancashire
PR2 9HT
Email: john.procter@lthtr.nhs.uk
Info:
Neuroscience Research Tissue Bank
Samples stored:
Collection of Tissue, CSF or Blood for Future Research Use
Website:
Contacts:
Linked with University of Lancashire, LTHTR & Wolverhampton.
University of Lancashire contact is:
Email: LShaw1@uclan.ac.uk