TY - JOUR
T1 - Tumor biobanks in translational medicine
AU - Botti, Gerardo
AU - Franco, Renato
AU - Cantile, Monica
AU - Ciliberto, Gennaro
AU - Ascierto, Paolo A.
PY - 2012/10/2
Y1 - 2012/10/2
N2 - The concept of tissue banking as a " bio-repository" aimed to collection, storing and distribution of human biological material and clinical information, is emerging as a successful strategy to support clinical and translational research. In particular, Tumor Biobanks represent a key resource for diagnosis, research and experimental therapies, especially for those correlated to clinical application of a new type of medicine known as " intelligent drugs" .Biobanks are not " spontaneous" collections, but they needs an institutional organization, basically a research unit, whose effectiveness and quality can be guaranteed only if it is carefully organized according to precise and shared rules.
AB - The concept of tissue banking as a " bio-repository" aimed to collection, storing and distribution of human biological material and clinical information, is emerging as a successful strategy to support clinical and translational research. In particular, Tumor Biobanks represent a key resource for diagnosis, research and experimental therapies, especially for those correlated to clinical application of a new type of medicine known as " intelligent drugs" .Biobanks are not " spontaneous" collections, but they needs an institutional organization, basically a research unit, whose effectiveness and quality can be guaranteed only if it is carefully organized according to precise and shared rules.
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U2 - 10.1186/1479-5876-10-204
DO - 10.1186/1479-5876-10-204
M3 - Article
C2 - 23031272
AN - SCOPUS:84866783724
SN - 1479-5876
VL - 10
JO - Journal of Translational Medicine
JF - Journal of Translational Medicine
IS - 1
M1 - 204
ER -