SRT nurses and Biorepository Technicians from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences will play a key role by recruiting the patients and collecting the blood and tissue samples that will be used in the project.
The team will collect around 1,200 samples from about 600 cancer patients and around 2,000 samples from about 660 rare disease patients. Samples will also be taken for other types of analyses for further research and extensive clinical outcome data will be collected. All samples will be sequenced by Illumina, the 100,000 Genomes Project’s sequencing partner.
Read the full story on the OUH website.
Gene study offers new hope to cancer patients
One patient to benefit from a pilot study into genetic sequencing is Oxford University’s Professor Kevin Gatter, who was diagnosed with rare metastatic prostate cancer in December. Read the full story in the Oxford Mail.