AACR launches African-American sequencing initiative
The American Association for Cancer Research is launching a genomics sequencing initiative called 2020 by 2020 to help study cancer outcomes in African-Americans.
The initiative -- which includes The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, M2Gen (Tampa, Fla.) and the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network (ORIEN) -- aims to perform genomic sequencing of tumor and normal tissue from 2,020 African-American cancer patients and aggregate the data with clinical data from the patients by the year 2020. As part of the initiative, the partners will help develop an infrastructure for African-American cancer patients to join the Total Cancer Care Protocol at Morehouse School of Medicine. M2Gen manages tissue and clinical data collection from patients enrolled in the Total Cancer Care Protocol, a research study operated by the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in collaboration with ORIEN's cancer center members...