Introduction

The two prostate cancer collaboratives which have been established in England have been working together for a number years. The two collaboratives are ProMPT and the Southern Collaborative. Both collaboratives have built up an extensive collection of human samples, derived bio-materials such as DNA and RNA, urine, fresh and paraffin embedded tissue materials.

We have established this joint database to highlight to the research community the facilities that are available potentially for collaborative studies with our respective groups. We hope you find this useful and we would welcome informal or more formal enquiries for access to samples and for research collaborations. We frequently release relatively small amounts of material for proof of principle studies but for larger studies, these go to our Scientific Advisory Committee to review quality.

Contributing organisations are responsible for making sure that samples are collected in accordance with the Human Tissue Act and are stored in HTA licenced premises.

Definitions for various terms can be found by placing the mouse pointer over the relevant word. For example point at thisThis is a definition. A full list of terms and definitions can be found in the glossary.

If you are a UK prostate researcher and you would like your collection of clinical prostate samples to be included on this database, please contact us.

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