Surgical Oncology Tumor Bank

The Surgical Oncology Tumor Bank contains tissue samples from more than 500 individual tumors that the lab has examined and catalogued, as well as a database of related information. By analyzing the growing body of data, we hope to identify a manageable number of subgroups - perhaps 10 or fewer - that will teach us how to predict cancer progression, and which treatments are most effective for each subgroup. We may find that some of these genetic subgroups of tumors are related, allowing us to map a "family tree" of cancer subtypes and identify which treatments are most effective for each branch of that tree.