Oesophageal Cancer Clinical and Molecular Stratification

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The OCCAMS Study

is a network of clinical centres across the UK recruiting patients with oesophageal and gastro oesophageal junction (GOJ) adenocarcinoma.

Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma (OAC) patient data and clinical samples (tissue and blood) are used to identify clinical, demographic and molecular factors affecting development and progression of this cancer.

Key collaborators

Our accomplishments

We have recruited over 4000 patients

35,000

Samples

4,000

Patients

27

Centres

Charities

Tissue collection and preparation

Any hospital that is a specialist centre for oesophago-gastric cancer is eligible to join the OCCAMS consortium.

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Bioinformatics

Data generated from OCCAMS samples using a variety of genomic, transcriptomic, and methylomic sequencing techniques are processed and managed by the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CI).

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Work with us

The OCCAMS project is always open to new collaborations, be them academic, industry or clinical. This openness has allowed the expansion and collation of many thousands of samples worth of tissues and data.

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Participating centres

We are collaborating with a wide range of NHS trusts across the UK who support sample and data collection of the project as well as scientific input and review.

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The OCCAMS Team

Meet the team based in Cambridge, UK

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