The North Carolina Tissue Consortium: Ensuring Equitable Representation and Accessibility to Cancer Specimens from Eastern North Carolina

Moses A McDaniel; Nasreen A Vohra; Kathryn M Verbanac

doi:10.18043/001c.91422

The North Carolina Tissue Consortium: Ensuring Equitable Representation and Accessibility to Cancer Specimens from Eastern North Carolina

N C Med J. 2023 Sep;85(1):15-17. doi: 10.18043/001c.91422.

Authors

Moses A McDaniel¹, Nasreen A Vohra¹, Kathryn M Verbanac^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University.
² Center for Health Disparities, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University.

PMID: 39374356
DOI: 10.18043/001c.91422

Abstract

The objective of the North Carolina Tissue Consortium is to facilitate cancer-related research by providing a means through which normal and malignant tissue specimens are procured, processed, stored, and distributed to researchers while protecting the rights and confidentiality of participants.

Keywords: ECU; Kathryn M. Verbanac; cancer research; eastern north carolina; health policy; north carolina; tissue specimens.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research
Confidentiality
Humans
Neoplasms*
North Carolina
Tissue Banks