Introduction

The Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute (IJC) Can Ruti Location houses the Germans Trias I Pujol Hospital and Institute (IGTP-HUGTP) Sample Handling Circuit Unit, which manages the processing and storage of voluntarily donated samples of haematological neoplasms. The samples are stored in the collection entitled “IJC Leukaemia and other blood disease Sample Collection”, harbouring over 9000 samples since 2013. The IJC Sample Banking Unit receives the bulk of its samples from the Catalan Institute of Oncology at the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital (ICO-HUGTP, Badalona).  Samples received from other hospitals are processed in an identical way.

Services

The technical staff of the IJC manages a database of patients, donors and samples received and processed according to required specifications for the tracking of each sample in the collection. The staff verify the quality, security and tracking of the data and samples throughout the process, starting at the very extraction. Every year the Unit process and cryopreserve approximately 1000 samples from patients with hematologic cancers.

• Specific protocols for cryopreservation according to sample and disease

• Recruitment of samples from haematological neoplasms

• Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia

• Myeloid Neoplasms

• Lymphoproliferative Diseases

• Monoclonal Gammopathies

• Breast and ovarian cancer

• Cardiopathies

• Healthy bone marrow (from Traumatology)

• Stored samples

• Peripheral blood

• Bone marrow

• Lymph node biopsy

• Saliva

• Samples at diagnosis, follow-up, progression and relapse