IU Simon Cancer Center's Tissue Bank Collecting Samples Sept. 20 At Clarian North

� Would you like to contribute to breast cancer research?


You can help oneself by donating a tissue paper sample to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at Ology Spa at the Clarian North Medical Center, 11700 North Meridian St., Carmel.


A tissue sample will be taken from one breast with a needle and local anesthesia. The total of tissue paper taken is about unitary gram (or the size of two peas).


To participate, women must:


- be age 18 or older


- have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign an informed consent


- be willing to cave in one hour of their time to complete a questionnaire and a breast biopsy


- not be allergic to local anesthetics (numbing medicine)


- not be receiving a therapeutical blood diluent (this does not include aspirin)


- not feature breast implants or cause had a breast decrease


To show, visit http://www.komentissuebank.iu.edu.


By collecting samples from women with and without knocker cancer, researchers will be able to determine the differences between these populations, which could lead to a better understanding of the disease. Samples taken from women without the disease ar especially helpful because in that respect are few collections of so-called "normal" specimens. The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center will at long last give researchers valuable and unprecedented research data.

IU School of Medicine


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