{"id":328,"date":"2023-06-26T07:34:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T07:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/website.prod.unilu.spikeseed.cloud\/fstm-en\/?page_id=328"},"modified":"2024-02-20T09:22:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T08:22:19","slug":"colorectal-cancer-sample-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fstm-en\/colorectal-cancer-sample-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorectal cancer sample collection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    \nTake part in colorectal cancer (CRC) research<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

    Did you know that CRC patients can help cancer research by authorizing sample collection?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The main reason to participate is to help researchers better understand the disease and find better treatments . Participants should not expect an immediate benefit from the study; however, your participation is extremely important because you will provide key information to advance research on colorectal cancer which in the long run will benefit CRC patients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Participation is, of course, voluntary and it mostly consists in collecting a sample of the tumor tissues excised as a part of the standard clinical procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If you are interested to help, please ask your doctor about the sample collection project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    About the colorectal cancer collecti<\/strong>on<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    The colorectal cancer collection, initiated in 2010, is a joint effort, involving oncologists and surgeons from the Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch (CHEM)<\/strong>, <\/strong>the Center Hospitalier Luxembourgeois (CHL)<\/strong>, the Robert Schuman hospitals (HRS)<\/strong>, and the Center Hospitalier du Nord (CHdN)<\/strong>, nurses from theClinical and Epidemiological Investigation Center at LIH, <\/strong>pathologists fromthe LNS <\/strong>as well as collection managers atthe IBBL <\/strong>and researchers atthe University of Luxembourg<\/strong>. Of note, the collection contains tumor tissues as well as normal counterparts from the same patients and different other collection samples such as blood and stool samples. For all patient samples, the clinical information, as well as the molecular data belonging to them, is accessible. This allows studying clinical parameters, ultimately leading to potential interesting translational findings<\/strong>. Importantly, all these samples can be shared within the research community in Luxembourg and abroad and feed additional colorectal cancer studies and fruitful collaborations.
    The collection has currently 180 patients enrolled and almost 4000 samples collected. As we collect the tumor cells as well as the different cells of the tumor microenvironment, we can generate \u201cmini tumors\u201d in the lab (also called organoids) which nicely recapitulate the original tumor<\/strong> and which foster personalized medicine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Funding: Fondation cancer, FNR and UniLu<\/p>\n\n\n

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