Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Biopsy Data to Guide Sampling Procedures for Prostate Cancer BiobankingSusan Heavey 1, Aiman Haider 2, Ashwin Sridhar 3, Hayley Pye 1, Greg Shaw 1, Alex Freeman 2, Hayley Whitaker 1
1Molecular Diagnostics and Therapeutics Group, University College London, 2Research Department of Pathology, University College London, 3Department of Uro-Oncology, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust
This method involves utilization of clinical diagnostic data for prostate cancer patients in order to guide sampling procedures, when biobanking tissue following radical prostatectomy. This overcomes issues with previously published methods around efficiency and availability of fresh tissue for a wider range of downstream applications.