Biobank: The Belgian Virtual Tumourbank (Belgium)

Primary purpose: To centralize and provide accessibility to residual human tumour samples for researchers, enabling the discovery of diagnostic and prognostic markers and the development of new therapies for the benefit of cancer patients.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Belgian Cancer Registry (BCR).

Type of information: Data Dictionary: The Belgian Virtual Tumourbank [1]. type of cancer (ICD10 codes); number of patients; tumor histology; tumor staging; conditions of tumor conservation; primary tumor localization age; sex;

Available type of information: [2][3].

Data level: patient level.

Number of Records: Number of records information [4].

Date Range: unknown.

Cancer Areas of Interest: The Belgian Virtual Tumourbank.

Data access: not publicly available. Instructions to request data for restricted content [5].

Contact information: Information [6].