Biobanking ‘key’ to cancer success

IRELAND’S cancer strategy success depends on having a biobanking network, a leading pathologist claimed yesterday.

Biobanking ‘key’ to cancer success

Biobanking is the storage, for research purposes, of surplus cancer tissue removed during surgery and usually discarded.

“It is a long-term investment, which is why we must start developing the network without delay,” said Prof Eoin Gaffney, who will address a public meeting on bio-banking in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in Dublin on Monday.

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