Timescales

2006

     February    

Establish access to facilities for the storage of the samples to appropriate standard

    July     

Begin collection of blood samples and formalin-fixed paraffin embedded samples of tumour and unaffected tissues from two National Cancer Research Networks started

Creation of the Confederation of Cancer Biobanks and with it a Biosample Expeditor Service, with at least two other partner biobanks funded by the National Cancer Research Institute

Agree policy and operational best-practice benchmarks for cancer biobanking in the UK, with our partners

Establish a mechanism for responding to requests for other clinical trials, and for bespoke sample collections not related to clinical trials

  October    

Best-practice toolkits created and published

Overall target date for development of a Biobank Information Management System to link other cancer biobanks with onCore UK

Creation of the Biosample Collection and Asset Management Service, which will be be conducted on contract for third parties, to onCore UK’s benchmark quality standards

 

2007

    January    

Collection of samples in two further cancer research networks

  October    

Overall target date for development of a Biobank Information Management System to link other cancer biobanks with onCore UK.

 

2008

    January    

Collection of samples extended to a further three cancer research networks

 

2009

     January    

Collection of samples extended to a further three cancer research networks