Objective
This application is for an internationally supported collaborative research resource for the many groups working on the problems of childhood thyroid cancer wich has followed the Chernobyl accident. It is designed to promote collaboration and avoid competition in the use of limited and very valuable resources. The three main groups involved in funding collaborative studies with the three states exposed to high levels of fallout (Belarus, Ukraine and Russian Federation) are the EC, NIH (US) and Sasakawa Foundation (Japan). The leading research groups in each organisation agree that a collaborative approach to the problem is required and have agreed to cooperate in its implementation.
Approaches to the main NIS centres involved have indicated that they also are happy to cooperate. Currently different small portions of tissue are made available to different groups without adequate information, with the possibility of overlapping series being unknowingly published and of different diagnoses being made on different small portions of tissue from the same gland. The basis of the project is a collaborative approach to the collection of the tissue from cases of thyroid cancer in the areas around Chernobyl with simultaneous collection of blood samples and basic clinical information. The diagnostic needs of the patient will come first but the other tissues will then be carefully dealt with, samples frozen and the blood separated and frozen. The three major international organisations will nominate pathologists to participate in a regular meeting with pathologists from the NIS states to review all slides from the newly operated cases and provide an agreed diagnosis for the other studies being supported (molecular biological epidemiological etc.). The tissues and blood will be made available to research groups involved in the studies of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident by a group including representatives of the NIS states involved and the 3 participating international organisations. This approach will provide a basis wich fosters international collaboration and reduces the chance of competition and even friction between groups in the request for material for work on this problem. It will greatly help existing projects funded by the three international organisations.
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United Kingdom
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