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Standard Operating Procedures
CTRNet charter members collaborate with each other to develop nationally accepted Policies and Standard Operating Procedures.
All file downloads are in PDF format. If you wish to modify these SOP's for local use please contact us and the original Word document can be sent.
* 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 |