Bioresource Collections and Tumor Banks

This assignment delves into the crucial role of bioresource collections and tumor banks in advancing cancer research. It highlights the importance of these resources for studying disease mechanisms, developing novel therapies, and educating researchers and healthcare professionals. The text discusses various aspects, including the establishment and maintenance of tumor banks, ethical considerations, and the impact of these repositories on improving patient outcomes.

Running Head: Bank of Cancer Research 1
Bank of Cancer Research
Name
Institution

Bank of Cancer Research 2
Introduction
Bank of cancer research is an organization which deals with the drilling back of profits got back
from bank deposits. In today’s world, international banks have sacrificed their profits to take care
of the cancer research. This is because; cancer research is too expensive to be catered by
donations which may be donated by well wishers. The donations are therefore not too helpful
compared to the profits ploughed back by bank deposits. Since it is a family threat, cancer has
threatened the lives of many people, all over the world. Cancer can therefore infect everybody,
ranging from children to adults and therefore everybody is being affected by the world’s number
owner life-threatening sickness. Doctors have faced challenges in conducting the cancer
research, and have therefore found it easy to conduct a thorough research when the research is
funded. From the doctor’s opinions, funding of the cancer research has encouraged the research
thus giving the doctors a hope of finding a cure for the cancer. The world should therefore be
sensitive enough to ensure that the cancer disease ha s been done away with, by making the
research a success.
Purpose
The aim of this report is to investigate the relationship between voluntary funding and cancer
Banking. Being a form of business investment, is a form of marketing which has contributed
much in the saving sector of banking for the sake of cancer research (Siddiqui, 2009 pg 1714).
Different businesses are the key concepts which create contribute towards the research of cancer.
However, the contribution towards the bank of cancer research is not narrowed to the richest
families only. Anybody willing to join the system is welcome, since cancer does not only infect
the wealthy, but also infects the poor and the middle class in the world. Apart from being part

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and parcel of the bank of cancer research, one can participate in the same through playing other
different roles which may contribute towards the same issue of topic.
Purpose beyond profit
The bank of cancer research will operate in way that the issue will be important compared to the
profits. This means that the aim of the investor will be to enable a successful research on the
killer disease, but not on the amount he or she contributes in the bank (Solomon, 2008 pg
10303). The BCR will operate under the principle that one’s contributions today will save a life
or two in the future. In addition, an investor will not invest in the bank for self benefit on the
profits. He or she will do so from their own will, since it is a voluntary issue. However,
everybody in the world looks forward to that particular time when one will be free from the killer
diseases, such as cancer. Since no one loves to see a relative suffering, the BCR will save
millions of lives in the future, since the scientist have a hope of finding a cure as soon as
possible. Contribution towards the BCR therefore plays the role of making the research a success
since a successful research cannot take place without being funded sufficiently.
The seriousness of cancer is a worldwide scandal that needs to be addressed even to the little
ones who are being born. They need to know more about the killer disease, and the ways of
providing a cure towards the same disease. This is because, the bank of cancer research will not
stop after this generation ends, it will continue to exist and operate even in the generations to
come. Offspring will not continue to fund the same bank since the BCR will be able to raise its
own profits.
Families who lost their loved ones as a result of cancer undergo a difficult moment. These
patients suffer without a hope of getting better in the future. Even if some of the patients survive,

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mostly of them die (DeSantis, 2015 pg 1502). Most of the patients are children and thus pre
mature death. These children increase the mortality rate of a country, thus lowering the
population. No one knows the destiny of these children, and therefore the country and the world
at large loses important people who could be of great importance in the future. The BCR will
therefore help in saving the lives of these young ones, who suffer without knowledge.
Everyone is better of
Everybody in the society is important, and no one is less important. Therefore everybody was
born for a purpose, and should live to fulfill that particular purpose in life. Premature death
therefore erodes the dreams of many people, since they never live to achieve their certain
purposes in life (Galperin, 2012 pg 4). Some of the people who die have a lot of knowledge
which could be of great help in the society. It is therefore important for everybody to take part in
the bank of cancer research, since it will secure the lives o many in the future.
The bank of cancer research will therefore cater for the needs of both members and non
members, since not everybody can afford to invest in a bank, without getting interest or drilling
back profits (Agar, 2010 pg 4735). People will however come to understand the importance of
investing in the BCR, since the future will tell the fortune of the whole world. Everybody will be
optimistic since all patients will be taken care of after the invention of the BCR. Children will
live to achieve their dreams, and strong men and women will live to serve their purpose in life.
Old people are still important in life. They are wise enough to foretell the future since they have
enough experience (Sullivan, 2010 pg 9940). The BCR will therefore safe this important life,
since the population of the aged has been dropping day by day. They have the right to enjoy life
and have a peaceful death, but not a death which is triggered by cancer.

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Primary and secondary Statistics
Research shows that the largest percentages of people who die as a result of cancer are children.
Worldwide, 60% of the total population is children (Rose, 2012 pg 480). 30% of the total
population is the youth and the middle aged, who include the adults (Siddiqui, 2009 pg 1714).
10% of the total population is the old age, which is now reducing at a higher rate. The children
are also reducing rapidly as a result of death caused by killer diseases such as cancer. These
children face a difficult moment, since they lack the ability to endure suffering. Therefore,
cancer and other sicknesses claim around 5% of the total percentage of children in the world
(Venneri, 2009 pg 120). Only 5% remains but are also at a higher risk of contracting the same
diseases in the future. This percentage therefore adds up to the percentage of adults who are
infected by cancer. The world counts these patients as dead, since the chances of losing their
lives are higher than the chances of living.
Sustainable philanthropy
Sustainable philanthropy means that, everybody, if explained, is able to understand the
importance of BCR (Yu, 2010 pg 5). Everybody can therefore see the sense of what people
have sacrificed their lives for. For example, investors who opt to invest in BCR know the
importance of doing so, and others are learning through what they are doing. They are therefore
influencing others who can see the sense of doing so in the present and the future time, so as to
see the fruits of their efforts in the future days to come. Sustainable philanthropy therefore insists
that people should be taught what to do, instead of spoon feeding them all through their live
(Visintin, 2008 pg 1071). The importance of teaching them on the ways of finding their own
meals in the future and in the present also is to avoid being depended all through. They must be

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show that they have the potential of being in depended, thus depending on their knowledge and
ability to make a living. This is well associated with the BCR investment. People should be
taught on the ways of investing in the BCR so that they can find a way out of saving their lives in
the future (Bottomley, 2009 pg 1613). Some people may underrate themselves simply because
they have low income or their business give less profit. However, they should compare and
contrast the importance of pulling together and pulling apart. While investing the little profit or a
certain percentage of what these local people get their local jobs, the same sacrifice can lead to a
worldwide help, where these people will never believe whether they were getting such a favor or
not (Hahn, 2010 pg 1040). The profit ploughed back k in a business cannot fund the BCR
without the help of other people’s contributions. Team work is therefore important in as much as
cancer research is concerned. However, funding bank of cancer research does not mean that
people will fund it forever. It means that a time will reach where the bank will be able to raise its
own profits, thus sustaining itself.
Tell someone else
Ideas are spread worldwide by sharing. Therefore, the idea of BCR can be made popular by
staring with you and me. People have to spread the good news to other people (Spaventi, 2013
pg 419). Cancer is a disease that affects people, and not animals, and people are still the solution
towards the same sickness. They should therefore find it easy to tell just two or three people
about the BCR. This may help a lot in the BCR, since well wishers may opt to fund the research
up to the end. This is therefore an international call, where one is requested to tell a friend or just
somebody about BCR.
Seriousness of the matter

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Life is so precious to let it go. However, letting it go does not pain much compared to losing it
to a deadly disease, which has taken root as a result of human ignorance. Everybody knows that
cancer is a killer disease, and everyone who contracts cancer in the long run cannot live long
before they get t their creator (Mohanty, 2008 pg 91). This means that the ultimate goal of cancer
is death. Many patients become hopeless once they are diagnosed with cancer. They spend the
rest of their lives in fear of death, since they know that their final days are near, and may arrive
any time. This people therefore become pessimistic and begin to worry about the live soft e
people they are going to live behind. They therefore die a death of regrets, fear of the unknown
and the future of the people left behind. When interviewed. Some cancer patients said that they
were too afraid of the lives of their children. This is because, that had seen cancer being
transmitted from parent to child, more so from mother to child. It is as if cancer has become a
genetic disorder, and must be inherited
However, not all patients or their families can afford to take care of a cancer patient (Haybittle,
2009 pg 1613). They find the palliative care needed too expensive since the drugs are not
affordable by everybody. In addition, not all hospitals offer palliative care for the cancer patients,
and so a lot of money is needed to visit advanced hospital where the disease will be addressed.
However, once patients learn that they are suffering from cancer. They begin to have nightmares
since they know that they will definitely die. Others commit suicide before their specific ay of
death arrives.
Anybody can be a victim of cancer. People should therefore see the seriousness of the matter,
and try to address the same without choosing who to tell. It is therefore the initiative of
everybody to spread the gospel of BCR, until it reaches the youngest child, and the wealthiest

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man and woman at the end (Campos, 2012). Our mouths might be of great help in the future as
we stand and say that we contributed towards BCR without investing in that particular bank.
Advantages and disadvantages
Everything which lands in the ears of a human being must be rated and weighed. People have
therefore weighed the issue of the BCR and come up with resolutions. First, some banks have
been open to serve the purpose of saving profits for the funding of the BCR (Morrin, 2009).
These banks have begun to give huge profits as an example of human being concern and interest.
People have therefore started to see the seriousness of the matter, and others have also decided to
join the contributions. A time has therefore come to stand together as the world and fight cancer
once and for all. Cancer is just a disease like any other, and can be terminated buy getting
remedy for curing it.
Team work has contributed to the success of starting and developing the BCR separation has
never won and therefore people have chosen to partner in businesses and give their profits, or
part of their profits to the BCR (Fujimura, 2007 pg 280). This has inspired other people to take
place in the contributions of profits to the same, since they have known that the research will
help many people, including their future generations to come. Today, cancer is not choosing
whom to be a victim. Everybody young or old is contracting cancer. The BCR is therefore not
limited to some groups of people. Everyone with an interest of funding the same is welcome,
since everybody will also benefit from the investments.
Future generations will be secure since a cure of cancer will be determined. They will also hear
about the contribution made by their fathers or fore fathers towards the termination of the killer
disease. They will therefore follow this good example of starting a bank and invest for sake of a

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research, in case of the occurrence of another killer disease (Watson, 2006). Knowledge is
power, and therefore these children will construct a strong base from the foundations laid by us,
who are the founders of BCR.
There will be a resolution for the diseases, which may threaten the lives of human beings in the
future. The world will turn into a happy place to live since people will have better ways of
dealing with soul seeking diseases
Disadvantages
People might be t empted to fund for other super natural organisms, which might be the source of
what we are suffering today (Ambrosone, 2006 pg 1576). Therefore, the success of the BCR may
temp scientist t take a further step of crossbreeding dangerous animals and human beings, who
may turn out to be harmful and dangerous to the lives of human beings. Therefore, there is no
way we can limit the knowledge of their scientist, who are still taking advantage of the funds we
are investing in the BCR.
Greedy individuals might be forced to start fake groups who might use false was to invest the
money in the BCR. As people know, everything with an original make must have a photocopy.
Therefore, some people might be tempted, and in this case are most likely to come up with ways
of benefitting from the funds secretly
Conclusion
It is therefore the role of everybody to take care of their loved ones in the future, by investing I
BCR. This will be the only way to a peaceful future, where children will not lose hope on their
ailing parents, but instead have a bright future of staying together as a family. People should

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however get cautioned since research may lead to other disastrous findings, which may become
worse compared to cancer itself.

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