The CTB (Chernobyl Tissue Bank)
is a unique venture. It is the first international cooperation that
seeks to establish a collection of biological samples from tumours
and normal tissues from patients for whom the aetiology of their
disease is known - exposure to radioiodine in childhood. The project,
which started in October 1998, is jointly funded by the European
Commission, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the USA and the
Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation of Japan (SMHF). The project
is coordinated from Imperial College, London and works with Institutes
in Russia (the Medical Radiological Research Centre in Obninsk)
and Ukraine (the Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism in Kiev)
to support local scientists and clinicians to manage and run a tissue
bank for those patients who have developed thyroid tumours following
exposure to radiation from the Chernobyl accident. Belarus was also
initially included in the project, but is currently suspended for
political reasons.
The project has the full support of the Governments of the Russian
Federation and Ukraine.
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Upcoming Thyroid Associations
meetings:
European Thyroid Association
Annual Meeting 2008
20th-24th September 2008, Chalkidiki, Greece
Further information at: http://www.eurothyroid.com/
79th Annual Meeting of the
American Thyroid Association
1st-5th October 2008, Chicago, USA
Further information at: http://www.thyroid.org/
ann_mtg/index.html
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