The mission of the Tissue Resource Core (TRC) of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center’s
(RHLCCC) is to provide tissue for breast cancer research and to support and foster collaborate research
in the Breast Cancer program and other research programs. The Tissue Resource Core is a multiinstitutional
facility: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, (NMH), and the University of Illinois Medical
Center (UIC), which is positioned at Northwestern University. Because our institutions serve large
numbers of new breast cancer patients, including minority and economically disadvantaged patients
each year for surgical treatment (>1300), collection and distribution of patient derived tissues for
research is excellent.
To achieve our mission, the TRC collaborates with:
1. Core facilities within in the parent institutions as well as those of the RHLCCC to facilitate
collecting, processing, storing, and distributing samples of breast cancer and breast tissue
suitable for RNA, molecular, biochemical and immunohistochemical analysis;
2. Develop with the Biostatistics/Bioinformatics (BIBS) Core in an information-rich sample database
that will link diagnostic and research test results to each sample utilized by researchers;
3. Collaborate with the research core facilities of RHLCCC to provide expertise in the development
and interpretation of tissue based testing;
4. Engage and assist investigators in planning, execution, and interpretation of their research
testing;
5. Give patients the option to be contacted in the future to participate in more research.
In achieving our mission, we hope to provide the means to move breast cancer research from diagnosis
and treatment into the arena of eradication and prevention.
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