Projects

The Australian Prostate Cancer BioResource has provided 1100 tissues to research groups across all mainland Australian states over 35 occasions during 2007-2009. The APCB has also conducted a study comparing biomarker expression in tissues derived from da Vinci robotic surgery and conventional retropubic radical prostatectomy (Class 1 publication, number 1).

Publications

Class 1: Research manuscripts resulting from the supply of tissues by the Australian Prostate Cancer BioResource, where the contribution is recognized by co-authorship.

1. Comparative Biomarker Expression and RNA Integrity in Biospecimens Derived from Radical Retropubic and Robot Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomies. Ricciardelli C, Bianco-Miotto T, Jindal S, Dodd TJ, Cohen PA, Marshall VR, Sutherland PD, Samaratunga H, Kench JG, Dong Y, Wang H, Clements JA, Risbridger GP, Sutherland RL, Tilley WD, Horsfall DJ, and the Australian Prostate Cancer BioResource. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010 July

2. Comprehensive analysis of the cytokine rich chromosome 5q31.1 region suggests a role for IL-4 gene variants in prostate cancer risk. Tindall EA, Severi G, Hoang HN, Ma CS, Fernandez P, Southey MC, English DR, Hopper JL, Heyns CF, Tangye SG, Giles GG, Hayes VM and the Australian Prostate Cancer BioResource. Carcinogenesis 2010 April 19 [Epub ahead of print]

Class 2: Manuscripts published through international collaboration without full authorship of the Australian Prostate Cancer BioResource.

1. Betsou F, Lehmann S, Ashton G, Barnes M, Benson EE, Coppola D, Desouza Y, Eliason J, Glazer B, Guadagni F, Harding K, Horsfall DJ, Kleeberger C, Nanni U, Prasad A, Shea K, Skubitz A, Somiari S, Gunter E; International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) Working Group on Biospecimen Science. Standard Preanalytical Coding for Biospecimens: Defining the Sample PREanalytical Code. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010 Mar 23. [Epub ahead of print] 

2. Betsou F, Barnes R, Burke T, Coppola D, Desouza Y, Eliason J, Glazer B, Horsfall D, Kleeberger C, Lehmann S, Prasad A, Skubitz A, Somiari S, Gunter E; [International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) Working Group on Biospecimen Science]. Human Biospecimen Research: Experimental Protocol and Quality Control Tools. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009; 18:1017-25.