Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer found in American
men, other than skin cancer. The Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue
Resource (CPCTR) project is funded by the National Cancer Institute
(NCI) on April 1, 2000. The Resource is designed to provide large
numbers of prostate cancer specimens with associated pathologic
and clinic data to support well-designed studies that might not
be possible with limited local resources. As its primary goal,
the Resource will support studies that involve: 1) developing
and validating new diagnostic or prognostic markers or 2) determining
the biologic role of diagnostic or prognostic markers. In addition
to these primary goals, the Resource will welcome requests to
support any promising prostate cancer research.
