KYTX 19 - Mother Frances Hospital To Participate In NIH Cancer Genome Atlas Project

Texas Oncology-Tyler and Mother Frances Hospital-Tyler announced today that they have agreed to participate in the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) historic project The Cancer Genome Atlas project (TCGA).

The two will collaborate with The International Genomics Consortium (IGC) to serve as a critical network tissue source site (TSS) to provide cancer tissue samples for analysis.

Mother Frances will provide cancer tissue samples under uniform and standardized conditions and also collect specific long-term clinical outcome data to facilitate research into the underlying cancer mechanisms.

The overarching goal of TCGA is to improve the ability to diagnose, treat and prevent cancer. The genomic blueprints of each cancer will be available on the web for all scientists to have access to for translational discoveries. TCGA plans to analyze 500 tumors from each cancer type studied by the program and will provide the clinically annotated outcome data along with the complete genomic analysis on the web, free of any intellectual property restrictions.

IGC plans to retain a portion of each sample that it provides to TCGA, if available, to expedite translational discoveries to help patient care, in work separate from TCGA. Additional information on TCGA may be found at http://cancergenome.nih.gov/.

"There have been great advancements in cancer care in the last two decades, but The Cancer Genome Atlas project holds the potential to deliver truly amazing discoveries, treatments and cures. This may be the most significant cancer research project to date. Texas Oncology-Tyler and Mother Frances are ready to serve in the important role of being one of only 12 sites in the U.S. for this project," said Donald A. Richards, MD, Ph.D., oncologist, Texas Oncology-Tyler, and principal investigator of the local Cancer Genome Atlas project.

For more details, see Thursday's Tyler Morning Telegraph.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Trinity
• Mother
• Frances
• Hospitals
• Clinics
• National
• Institute
• Health
• Cancer
• Genome
• Atlas
• Project
• Texas
• Oncology
• Tyler