The primary purpose of the clinical breast cancer research core is to
support the research of the five SPORE projects, and the high priority
projects and other studies of SPORE Investigators. The specific aims
of the CORE are as follows: The first aim is to provide the project in
vestigators of the SPORE grant with access to a clinical research faci
lity. A second aim is to provide the investigators with a clinical dat
abase linked to the tumor bank for the facilitation of studies to impr
ove the diagnosis and prognosis of breast cancer. A third aim is to de
velop and maintain a serum and DNA lymphocyte bank which will enable i
nvestigators to take prognostic or therapy response factors developed
in the laboratory and evaluate their clinical significance.