STRIDE Anonymous Biospecimen Locator

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The STRIDE Anonymous Biospecimen Locator allows Stanford researchers to search the STRIDE Virtual Biospecimen Bank for suitable samples without having to know, or expose, any protected patient-specific information. Having determined that suitable specimens exist in one of the constituent biospecimens banks, the researcher can generate a Web-based request form to obtain additional information from the appropriate bank operator(s).

The first biospecimen bank searchable using this tool is the Stanford Cancer Center Pathology Core Tissue Bank, which is housed in the STRIDE database. The Cancer Center Pathology Core Tissue Bank, Directed by Jonathan Pollack MD, PhD, consists of almost 8000 frozen tissue samples from over 5,000 distinct patients. New tissue samples are added daily. Additional biospecimen banks are being added to STRIDE for searching by the system.

The STRIDE Anonymous Biospecimen Search Tool searches for tissues matching user-entered criteria, such as Organ Site, Pathological Diagnosis, Cancer Type, Patient Gender, Age at Biopsy/Autopsy, Minimum Tissue Amount, Tissue Source and Consent Type. A successful search returns only the number of specimens found - no patient data is disclosed. If a search finds matching tissue you can generate a Web-based request to the Cancer Center Pathology Core Tissue Bank.

Requirements

To use the STRIDE Anonymous Biospecimen Search Tool you must be:

• Stanford faculty or Academic Staff (Login using SUNet ID and password)
• Connected to the SUMC Network (School of Medicine, LPCH or SHC)
• Using a Macintosh computer running Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later or a Windows computer running Windows XP (with Service Pack 2) or Windows Vista.
• Have Java JRE version 1.5.0 or later installed on your computer. Instructions for checking which version of Java is installed on your computer is available at http://www.javatester.org/version.html

Terms of Use

Users of the STRIDE Anonymous Biospecimen Search Tool acknowledge that:
This system was not designed, nor is it intended, to support any aspect of patient care and its use for any patient care purposes is prohibited.

The results returned by this system may not be distributed outside of Stanford University Medical Center.

All searches executed within the system are recorded and will be examined, as part of routine compliance audits. The identity of the user is recorded along with information related to each search executed.

No person registered as a user of the system may share his/her login information with any other person for purposes of accessing this system. Only registered users who are Stanford faculty or Academic Staff may use the system.

If you encounter difficulties running this search tool, please consult the systems requirements or contact STRIDE technical support.