Patients And Researchers Together (PART)
Patients are PARTners in cancer research
At UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, patients are a PART of bringing new discoveries from the laboratory to the clinic by donating their tissue to research to help improve the lives of all cancer patients.
The PART Program’s goal is to inform and motivate patients to donate the tissue that researchers need to create new and meaningful treatments for cancer.
Ask your doctor how to donate tissue for research
Tissue donation for cancer research
By choosing to donate your tissue, you have a chance to help researchers learn more about cancer.
Researchers may discover new and better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.
What is PART?
The Patients And Researchers Together (PART) Program is a patient-centered tissue collection PARTnership between researchers, patients, and community advocates at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center to increase tissue donations for cancer research.
We work together to as a team to:
- Share information
- Promote research using tissue
- Communicate to the public
- Improve the lives of cancer patients
Your questions answered
- Tumor tissue is especially important and helpful to cancer research.
- Normal tissue, which includes blood, hair, saliva and urine, is also essential to cancer research.
Like many things in life, “real” is typically better than “imitation.”
For example: Would you choose real milk chocolate or imitation milk chocolate? Real, please!
There are good ways to model or mimic what cancer is and how it behaves, but human-based samples are best for studying human-based diseases.
Tissue donation is entirely your choice, and we are grateful for your contribution! Together, we can help advance medicine to improve treatments and boost patient care.
Ask your doctor about donating tissue!