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Manitoba Breast Tumor Bank
Fee Schedule
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| Product |
Cost to Academic Users |
| Individual
Cases |
| Case fee |
$ 10 (C cases) $ 20 (B cases) $ 30 (A
cases) per case fee for baseline clinical-pathology data (ie
histological composition, type, grade, size, ER/PR & nodal
status,) |
| Paraffin 5µm sections |
$1 |
$1/section for up to 5 sections ($2/section for
additional sections) |
| Frozen 5µm sections |
$2 |
$2/section for up to 5 sections, ($4 for additional
sections). Double cost for twenty micron sections. |
| Clinical data |
$ 10 |
Add $ 2/yr followup. For the extended clinical data
per case (treatment and outcome data) |
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| Tissue Arrays |
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| Array case fee |
$20 |
per case fee for baseline clinical-pathology data (ie,
type, grade, size, ER/PR & nodal status,) |
| Array 5µm section |
$100 / $200 |
$100/section for up to 5 five micron sections when
clinical data is utilized $200/section for up to 5 five micron
sections when clinical data is not utilized |
| Clinical data |
$10 |
For the extended clinical data per case (treatment and
outcome data) |
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FOOTNOTES:
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The philosophy of the MBTB dictates that tissue is only released in the form of thin sections (5-20um) to ensure amortization of each tissue block across multiple projects. Tissue arrays will be available in the near future. Note that the per cases fee differs between cases in different categories.
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Examples of costs based on two hypothetical projects;
- 100 C category cases for IHC with x 4 antibodies (on x 4 paraffin sections per case) and RT-PCR (on RNA extracted from x5 frozen sections per case) would cost; 100 cases @ x$10 per case fee ($1,000) + 100 x 4 paraffin sections @ $1/section ($ 400) + 100 x 5 frozen sections @ $2/section ($800) = $2,200 (+ reagents & shipping costs)
- 100 B category cases for IHC with x 4 antibodies (on x 4 paraffin sections per case) and RT-PCR (on RNA extracted from x5 frozen sections per case) with a minimum of 3 yrs clinical follow-up data per case would cost; 100 cases @
x $20 per case fee ($2,000) + 100 x 4 paraffin sections @ $1/section ($ 400) + 100 x 5 frozen sections @ $2/section ($800) + 100 cases @ $10 +
3 x $2 followup data ($1,600) = $ 3,200 Tissue costs + $1,600 Data costs = $4,800 (+ reagents & shipping costs)
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Supplies & Reagents: Additional charges would be applied on a cost recovery basis to cover the cost of specific reagents used for individual projects
(eg special tubes, coated IHC slides etc) and these are available on request
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Shipping: charges for shipping (usually by Fed-Ex) will vary by location and nature of the tissue batches. Note that although a single shipment would be cheaper, it is our policy to ship large case cohorts in several shipments for logistical and security reasons.
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Arrays. The MBTB has recently begun to construct tissue arrays and has completed construction of two 0.6 mm duplicate core invasive tumor arrays (n=90 cases and n=165 cases). All cases are
ER-ve invasive tumors. The cost of these arrays reflects the underlying value and input into each case (matching frozen blocks available, uniform pathology data, clinical outcome data available).
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