Standard Operating Procedures

CTRNet charter members collaborate with each other to develop nationally accepted Policies and Standard Operating Procedures.

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* Note - As of November 15, 2011 all CTRNet SOP's are undergoing a full review. New versions will be available for download early 2012. If you wish to be notified when new SOP's are ready please use the contact us form.

1.0 Administration English Français
1.1.001 Obtaining Confidentiality Disclosure Agreements
1.1.002 Numbering of Policies, Procedures and Documents
1.1.003 Reviewing and Modifying SOPs
1.1.004 Handling Participant(Donor) Complaints
1.1.005 Administration of Standard Operating Procedures
1.1.102 Job Descriptions, Roles and Responsibilities
2.0 Participant and Recruitment Management English Français
2.1.001 Participant Recruitment into Tumour Bank Program
2.1.002 Developing and Revising Consent Forms
2.1.003 Requesting Additional Survey Information
2.1.004 Reserved
2.1.005 Obtaining Informed Consent
2.1.006 Withdrawal of Consent
2.1.007 Notification of Significant and Relevant Findings
3.0 Records and Documentation Management English Français
3.1.001 Information Access Control
3.1.002 Database Backup Systems
3.1.003 Data Tranmission to CTRNet
3.1.004 Clinical annotation
3.1.005 Retention of Data for Unbankable Samples
3.2.006 Reserved
3.2.007 Reserved
3.1.008 Document Quality and Care
4.0 Facilities Management/Operation English Français
4.1.001 Physical Security at Tumour Bank Facilities
4.1.002 Reserved
4.1.003 Procedure for back-up power
4.1.004 Emergency procedure for Freezer and Refrigerator failure
4.1.006 Maintenance of sample storage facility and equipment
5.0 Quality Assurance Procedures English Français
5.1.001 Assessing quality of tissue specimens
5.1.002 Assessing quality of nucleic acids
6.0 Safety English Français
6.1.001 Reserved
6.1.002 Handling Hazardous Chemical Waste
6.1.003 Immunization and Personnel Accident Reporting
7.0 Training English Français
7.1.001 Education and Training
8.0 Materials Handling and Documentation English Français
8.1 General
8.1.001 Labeling and tracking materials
8.1.002 Biohazardous Waste Management
8.1.003 Inventory Verification
8.1.004 Destruction of Human Specimen Materials
8.1.005 Reserved
8.2 Blood
8.2.001 Blood Collection
8.2.002 Blood Processing and Storage
8.2.003 Blood Derivatives: Extraction of RNA
8.2.004 Blood Derivatives: Extraction of DNA
8.3 Solid Tissue
8.3.001 Tissue Collection and Transportation
8.3.002 Tissue Harvesting
8.3.003 Snap Freezing of Tissue
8.3.004 Preservation of Tissue OCT
8.3.005 Preservation of Tissue by FFPE
8.3.006 Sectioning of tissue - Paraffin and OCT embedded tissue
8.3.007 H & E staining of tissue sections
8.3.008 Tissue Derivatives- Extraction of DNA
8.3.009 Tissue Derivatives- Extraction of RNA
8.3.010 TMAs from Paraffin embedded blocks
8.3.011 Sample Retrieval
8.4 Urine
8.5 Saliva
8.6 Bone Marrow
8.7 Cell Lines
9.0 Material Release English Français
9.1.001 Sample Shipping and Transportation
9.1.002 Completion of an MTA
9.1.004 Material Request and Release