Credit: NCI-CONNECT Staff
Studying tumor tissue and clinical data across our national network of institutions will help researchers advance their knowledge of rare brain and spine tumors faster.
NCI-CONNECT is launching a study across its network of clinical collaborators to better understand rare brain and spine tumors. The study collects tumor tissue and comprehensive clinical data from deceased patients with rare brain and spine tumors and people that were pregnant at diagnosis or became pregnant after diagnosis of a primary brain tumor.
“The data are out there waiting to be analyzed and understood. The more data we collect, the better we can design clinical trials and study therapeutic options that improve the outcomes of patients,” says Marta Penas-Prado, M.D., principal investigator of the study and an associate research physician in the Neuro-Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH.