Volume 93, supplement 5, Août 2006

Éditorial

Les tumorothèques, ressources majeures pour la recherche sur le cancer et la prise en charge des patients (p.195-6)
François Sigaux

Synthèse

Guidelines for the collection, conservation and use of human biological samples in the field of cancer (p.197-211)
Laurent Borella, Richard Lubin, Marc Dupont, Anne Janin

Tumor banks for clinical use: definition, prospects and recommendations (p.213-20)
Jean-Michel Coindre, François Sigaux, Georges Delsol

A nationwide survey of French tumor cell and tissue banks (p.221-7)
Christian Chabannon, Frédérique Penault-Llorca, Anne Cambon-Thomsen, Fabien Calvo, Catherine Guettier, Christian Brambilla, Georges Delsol, Anne Janin, Marie-Christine Copin, François Amalric, Christine Barra, Laurent Borella, Dominique Maraninchi

Constitution of a prospective tumor cohort TT (p.229-36)
Christian Brambilla, Christian Chabanon, Samia Diab, Philippe Lorimier, Olivier Delattre, Jacqueline Goddet, Pierre Hainaut, Pierre Houdet, Thierry Fest, Wladimir Lazar, Rosette Lidereau, Dominique Maraninchi

Tumor banks and clinical research: challenges and opportunities (p.237-40)
Marc Buyse

National visibility of tumor banks and framework for interoperability (p.241-5)
Marie-Christine Copin, Frédéric Bibeau, Thierry Durand, Paul Hofman, Agnès Mechine-Neuville, Emmanuel Reyrat, Bruno Turlin, Karen Leroy

National visibility of tumor banks and framework for interoperability 2. The national virtual tumor bank project (p.246-8)
Pascal Boucher, Marc Buyse, François Amalric, Thierry Le Chevalier, Olivier Rixe