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Tissue Banking Overview: Washington University Medical Center

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8/21/2012<br />

Specimen Collection<br />

• Diseased <strong>Tissue</strong><br />

Genetic, biochemical, or histological analysis of<br />

disease process<br />

Sampling Site<br />

Fixed vs. Frozen (Dictates storage needs<br />

and future utilization)<br />

Fixation Type<br />

Embedding Medium<br />

• Serum /<br />

Plasma<br />

Biochemical<br />

studies<br />

Aliquot and<br />

freeze<br />

• Peripheral Leukocytes/Bone Marrow<br />

Genomic (germ line) analysis; Occult<br />

tumor cell detection<br />

Whole blood<br />

Enriched nucleated cell fraction<br />

Density gradient centrifugation<br />

Cryopreservation / Immortalization<br />

• CSF and<br />

other fluids<br />

Cytospin<br />

Freeze<br />

Terminology for collected/ banked samples<br />

Identified – Labeled with personal identifiers such as name or SSN<br />

Coded – Labeled with a clinical trial subject number, investigator has<br />

access to the code<br />

De-identified – Labeled with a unique second number; link between this<br />

second number and the clinical trial subject number is maintained in a<br />

highly secure database, and generally unavailable to investigators and<br />

patients<br />

Anonymized – Link described above is irreversibly removed, so that<br />

specimens cannot be traced back to patient identities by anyone<br />

Anonymous – Samples without personal identifiers, and whose identity<br />

is unknown. An increasingly nebulous concept these days, with the<br />

advent of whole exome and genome sequencing, where the data is<br />

increasingly viewed as essentially the patient’s identity<br />

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