Access to materials
The project is overseen by a Management Committee, which is comprised of representatives from each of the funding bodies and the NIS governments involved. It is not the aim of the project to restrict access to material - but to regulate access in such a way that the maximum amount of information can be gathered which could lead to better patient care and assessment of risk from radiation exposure to a young population in the future.
All applications for use of the bank are referred to an independent External Review Panel which comprises experts nominated by the organisations which sponsor the project - the European Commission (EC), the National Cancer Institute of the USA (NCI), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation of Japan (SMHF) - and the governments of the participating Eastern European countries (Ukraine and Russia).
Each sample of nucleic acid or serum will be identified by an CTB sample number and accompanied by a minimum data set comprising the following information:
- date of birth
- date of operation
- sex
- oblast of residence
- International Pathology Review Panel diagnosis.
Further more detailed information may be available; the justification for this should be set out in the application.
Access to materials and data from the bank must be made through the secretariat on the appropriate forms which are available in both PDF and word format from this web site and may be submitted either by email, or post.
Applications received by the Secretariat will be
- registered and given a number
- acknowledged and an estimated decision date provided
- copied to the members of the External Review Panel (ERP)
Applications are usually received by email by the CTB secretariat. Applications are acknowledged by email and then distributed by email to the appropriate Panels (see below).
Written protocols and sample forms for assessment are provided in this document, together with an actual recent consensus report from the ERP on one application. All original documentation for each application is kept on file at the Coordinating Centre. An overview of the procedure is provided in the flow diagram below.
Schema for review of applications
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