University of Colorado Cancer Center Pathology Shared Core Service
The University of Colorado Cancer Center Pathology Core ensures that well-characterized human tumors and materials derived from human tumors to are provided to Cancer Center and other funded investigators for research in human cancer. The Pathology Core:
- Establishes priorities for tissue collection. With the support of the Core, members of the UCCC have obtained separate funding to support large organ-based repositories
- Serves as a central planning resource for these separate repositories
- Interacts with the Biostatistics/informatics and Clinical Investigation Cores to provide an optimal infrastructure for the conduct of translation research
- Provides supplemental and backup support for the repositories
- Offers diagnostic assistance and tissue processing services, including histological and immunohistochemical services, to Cancer Center investigators who are not supported by a separate tissue bank
The Core provides central infrastructure for separately funded banks that are increasing in number and sophistication. In 2007, the Southwest Oncology Group solid tumor banks moved entirely to Colorado.