Most research projects conducted at the RNOH recruit patients who are currently receiving care here or who are referred to the RNOH.
Below you will find details of schemes that may be of interest to patients and the public.
RNOH Musculoskeletal Research Programme including the Biobank
We are inviting past and future patients who have come through the RNOH to donate tissue and provide the Stanmore Musculoskeletal Research Programme and Biobank with access to your clinical notes and imaging records (X-rays and scans).
What is the Stanmore Musculoskeletal Biobank?
The Stanmore Biobank is a collection of human material including blood, urine, saliva and normal and diseased tissue, for example, bone, cartilage and muscle donated from patients attending various hospitals in the UK and abroad.
What is its purpose?
The purpose of the Biobank is to have tissue available for research
projects on musculoskeletal diseases such as arthritis, scoliosis (disease of the spine) and bone and soft tissue tumours, for example, tumours of bone and muscle. The research will take place in the UK and abroad. The more people who give consent to use their tissue samples, clinical notes and imaging records, the better the results of research performed using the Biobank. The better the results, the more progress can be made regarding treatments.
SCAT bone cancer trust
Scat is a charity dedicated to the advancement of bone cancer research, to understanding further the causes and process of bone cancer and its management and to working towards a better outcome for patients. Clinical trials have already started at the RNOH on another important pioneering research programme. Scat research projects are ongoing in genetics in the area of chordoma, osteosarcoma and more recently, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours.
Sarcoma genome study
Pioneering research into the DNA of sarcoma and the development of a blood test to monitor the progress of patients who have been treated for cancer is being performed at the RNOH and funded by SCAT.
