Cryopreservation of tumor tissue gives you an opportunity for using the most modern personalized anti-cancer treatments and keeps open your options for the future treatments.
Learn moreCryopreservation of tumor tissue gives you an opportunity for using the most modern personalized anti-cancer treatments and keeps open your options for the future treatments.
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Cryopreservation of tumor tissue gives you an opportunity for using the most modern personalized anti-cancer treatments and keeps open your options for the future treatments. (Read more…)
As a part of the treatment process, prepare personalized anti-cancer vaccines, for induction of an immune response against a patient’s cancer cells. (Learn more…)
Missing the opportunity to keep tumor tissue cryopreserved is likely to result in future frustration of patients in need not being aware of the loss of a potentially important therapeutic tool
The surgeon should be notified ahead of time to keep as much tumor tissue as he can
The tumor tissue should be placed inside a well-sealed 2-ml or 5-ml sterile tube suitable for cryopreservation or a standard 50-ml tube with a small amount of saline to prevent drying of the tissue.
Anti-Cancer Vaccines
At the Biotherapy Tumor Bank, the tumor will remain ready for the preparation of anti-cancer vaccines as soon as indicated, preferably at the stage of minimal residual disease.
At the Biotherapy Tumor Bank, the tumor will be kept cryopreserved at – 80°C or – 196°C for an unlimited period of time until treatment will be indicated.
The tubes containing the tumor tissue should be kept frozen at all times, and placed into a – 80°C refrigerator or liquid nitrogen refrigeration at – 196°C until used. Ideally, they should be sent to our tissue bank on dry ice (-70°C) with a professional courier service for long-term cryopreservation.
The surgeon should be notified ahead of time to keep as much tumor tissue as he can
The tumor tissue should be placed inside a well-sealed 2-ml or 5-ml sterile tube suitable for cryopreservation or a standard 50-ml tube with a small amount of saline to prevent drying of the tissue.
The tubes containing the tumor tissue should be kept frozen at all times, and placed into a – 80°C refrigerator or liquid nitrogen refrigeration at – 196°C until used. Ideally, they should be sent to our tissue bank on dry ice (-70°C) with a professional courier service for long-term cryopreservation.
At the Biotherapy Tumor Bank, the tumor will be kept cryopreserved at – 80°C or – 196°C for an unlimited period of time until treatment will be indicated.
At the Biotherapy Tumor Bank, the tumor will remain ready for the preparation of anti-cancer vaccines as soon as indicated, preferably at the stage of minimal residual disease.
Anti-Cancer Vaccines
Cryopreserving a tumor sample at ultra-cold temperature ensures it stays as close as “fresh” as possible. This keeps all the information stored in the tumor’s DNA intact.
If standard anti-cancer treatments (such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy) fail, the cryopreserved tumor sample can help us prepare a customized anti-cancer vaccine. This will teach your immune system to recognize the DNA in your tumor as “non-self” and aggressively fight it as it would fight an infection.
Many methods can be used for anti-cancer immunotherapy, and some do not require live tumor tissue. However, anti-cancer vaccines are one of the least invasive and safest immunotherapy options. Without fresh or cryopreserved tumor tissue, it is not possible to prepare a customized vaccine.
It is impossible to know from the start whether cancer will become recurrent or if it will metastasize. Most cancers respond well to conventional treatments. When they don’t, additional rounds of chemotherapy or radiotherapy are mainly ineffective in eliminating cancer to the last cell.
When a patient is first diagnosed with cancer, we all expect advanced treatments like immunotherapy won’t be necessary. If they do, having a tumor sample stored in a tumor bank can make a massive difference in the range of treatments available.
Contact us using the form below. One of our team members will contact you and schedule a video call with you and your attending physician. During this call, we will explain the necessary procedure to reserve a tumor sample during a biopsy, store it, and send it to our tumor bank.
It is important to begin the process before the initial biopsy or cancer-removal surgery. The surgeon needs to be notified ahead of time in order to preserve as much of the original tumor tissue as he can.
The tumor sample can be stored in 2-ml or 5-ml sterile tubes, made from a material that can withstand cryopreservation. If this is not available, the surgeon can also use a 50-ml tube with a small amount of saline solution.
Then, the tumor needs to be transported to Tel Aviv via our courier. During the journey, it should be kept on cold ice at ultra cold temperatures (either a deep-freeze refrigerator at -80°C, or a liquid nitrogen refrigerator at -196°C).
