Earlier this year, the Gastric Cancer Foundation committed $257,856 to the Gastric Cancer Registry at Stanford University, which is using the funding for a major expansion. The registry’s researchers, led by Hanlee Ji, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, are now hard at work processing more than 300 gastric samples from the Intermountain Healthcare Biorepository.
The Intermountain samples will greatly expand the registry, which currently includes epidemiological data from 557 gastric cancer patients and family members, as well as tumor tissue samples from a subset of patients. Paired data derived from the samples is included in the registry’s Genome Explorer, a HIPAA-compliant online portal that’s available to any scientist who wants to perform analyses of stomach tumors.
