Introduction
Annotated NSWPCN Tissue micro-arrays
Our collection includes one of the world's largest and most comprehensively annotated FFPE pancreatic tumour tissue cohort in micro-array format. This retrospectively acquired Australian surgical cohort spans over a decade, and is especially designed for rapid biomarker discovery studies. Pancreatic tumour types include pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas, ampullary carcinomas, intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms, pancreatic endocrine tumours and solid pseudo papillary tumours.
This diagram shows two representative tissue micro-array cores viewed under light microscopy at medium to high magnification. Our arrays typically contain up to 96 cores per slide. On the left is an example of a moderately differentiated pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, while on the right is a poorly differentiated example.
Annotated ICGC Tissue micro-arrays
We are in the process of constructing FFPE pancreatic cancer tissue micro-arrays for prospectively collected tissue. Many of these have matched snap frozen and blood component material, accompanied by a rich clinicopathological dataset.
For further information about biospecimen availability and how you can use them for your research, please contact us at research@pancreaticcancer.net.au.
