Childhood cancer researchers face a shortage of viable tissue samples and cell lines to help accelerate their research. By informing and collaborating with your patients about the importance of tissue donation, you can be part of the movement to find cures for childhood cancer.

Funded by Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, The Childhood Cancer Repository is the cell line and xenograft storage and cultivation center that accepts several types of tissue samples including cells, marrow and blood, from any stage of treatment.

Tissue samples are used to create continuous cell lines—providing the purest renewable resource for researchers all around the world. Tissue samples are taken at the time of biopsy, surgery or routine testing and sent to The Childhood Cancer Repository. There are no extra procedures. Here’s how it works:

1. Learn more about The Childhood Cancer Repository at: CCCells.org.
    
2. Share the reverse side of this sheet with your patients. Samples can be obtained at any time during the diagnosis, treatment and even in the situation when a patient passes away.
    
3. Physicians will prepare and send samples to The Repository. Protocols for obtaining and submitting samples can be found on cccells.org/protocols.php.
    
4. Samples can be collected through COG and non-COG protocols, such as Project: Everychild, ANBL00B1 and ABTR04B1. Physicians can also contact Pat Reynolds MD/PhD, Director of The Childhood Cancer Repository, directly ([email protected]).
    
5. There is no cost to participate for families. THANK YOU for sharing this opportunity and advocating for tissue donation. Your willingness to work with and further explain the benefits of tissue donation will help ensure that children diagnosed in the future have more effective, less toxic treatments. On behalf of those families you are helping, we are sincerely grateful.

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