Brain tumour patients asked to donate tissue to biobank

Patients who undergo surgery for brain tumours are to be given an opportunity to help researchers learn more about the disease by donating their tissue to an Irish hospital.

Brain Tumour Awareness Week runs until Saturday, and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland has chosen the occasion to unveil their biobank, which is facilitated by the departments of neurosurgery and neuropathology in Beaumont Hospital and supported by the charity Brain Tumour Ireland.

The project will see patients asked if they are willing to donate any of their tissue which is not needed for diagnostic purposes to the biobank to aid research aimed at increasing survival rates.