Port Macquarie Collection Centre

Site location: Port Macquarie Base Hospital Oncology Department, Port Macquarie, NSW

Local contact: Dr. Stephen Begbie

Date of operations (date of formal start of current bank operation): July 2007

Date range of cases: July 2007–present

Example input statistics:

Overall response to consent (Yes%/No%/Unknown %): 95% Yes

Total individual cases held: 110

% cases associated with fresh-frozen tumor biospecimens: 0%

% cases with paraffin embedded biospecimens: 90%

% cases with blood and blood derivatives: 93%

In your view, what are the most valuable/highest priority cases in your biobanks?

Getting the collections done so that we can provide information for breast cancer research, performed by others (at this stage).

What are your major challenges?

Logistics

What would you do with $1 million to improve the value of your biobanks?

Provide additional breast cancer nurse hours to facilitate recruitment.