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8TISSUE BANKINGWill Donating My TissueChange My Surgery or Care?Patients sometimes ask if their decision todonate tissue will affect their treatment. The answeris no. Regardless of whether you decide to donateyour tissue or not, your operation and medical carewill be exactly the same. Your decision will not affecthow much tissue is removed during surgery, and itwill not change the number of visits to your doctor.Patients who are thinking of donating tissuemay also be concerned that the doctor will not haveenough tissue for their diagnosis and treatment.That never happens. During your medical procedure,your doctor will remove all the tissue needed fora thorough diagnosis and treatment. A portion ofyour tissue is not neededfor your cancer care. Thisleftover tissue, which wouldotherwise be discarded, issent to the tissue bank.“We make sure that we have enough tissue to tell us all the informationthat we need to take care of you, the patient, prior to donating sometissue to a tissue bank.”—Lawrence N. Shulman, MD, physician
ADVANCING CANCER CARE 9Who Benefits From TissueBanking?If you donate your tissue for research,you probably will not benefit directly, but others willbenefit in the future. Tissue banking helps scientistsstudy the biology of cancer. It helps them answerimportant questions about why cancer develops, howit grows, and who is at risk. The answers to thesequestions can lead to earlier, more accurate diagnosisand better treatment. But it takes a long time forscientists to make discoveries from medical research.Just as the discoveries of a decade ago led to currenttherapies, the knowledge gained from studying humantissue today will advance patient care in the yearsahead. When you donate your tissue for research, youare helping the generation of cancer patients to come.Many different types of research rely on the useof human tissue:• Learning how cancer cells work• Identifying the causes of cancer• Understanding how cancer behaves in differentethnic groups• Developing new cancer drugs and diagnostic tests• Discovering “markers” that predict who willrespond to treatment
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