Developments at the Clinical Cancer Center
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Because being a leading edge center for cancer care means never settling for status quo, the Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center is enhancing and expanding its outpatient services for the comfort and convenience of patients, making important developments toward research with a new tissue bank, and considering ground-breaking whole genome sequencing.
Tissue bank established for cancer research
When it comes to complicated diseases such as cancers of the liver, pancreas, bile ducts or gallbladder, Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin offer a variety of advanced treatment options. Surgical removal is often the front line treatment, in combination with other treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy and interventional radiology techniques.
Researchers are constantly looking for new ways to treat cancer. “The ability to use human tumors for research is critically important to advancing our understanding of the biology of cancer,” said Douglas Evans, MD, surgical oncologist and chairman of The Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Surgery.
Dr. Evans has led the way by setting up a tissue bank. The HPB tissue bank is a laboratory where tissue is processed and stored. (HPB is the acronym for hepatopancreaticobiliary, which refers to diseases of the liver, pancreas, bile ducts or gallbladder.) A portion of tissue removed as part of a scheduled surgery is frozen within minutes and preserved for future research. Tissue is stored in the tissue bank only if the patient agrees and signs a consent form.
Every surgery has the potential to add to the body of knowledge that helps researchers understand cancer better.
“With the tissue bank up and running, we are working on a database to link health information,” said Anne Laulederkind, BSN, manager of clinical research. “Qualified researchers will be able to request specific tissue — for example, pancreas cancer tissue only from patients who were treated with a certain medication. Associating health information with the tissue makes the tissue bank invaluable.”
More than 275 patients have already volunteered to have their tissue and blood included in the HPB tissue bank.
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