Biobanking between ethical issue and providing treatments for people

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International Journal of Development Research

Biobanking between ethical issue and providing treatments for people

Abstract: 

Health is very important for humans, but sometimes treatment of disease becomes necessary. People have faced cancer before, in the last centuries, but these days cancer is more widespread. Because of this scientists are trying to find treatments to cure cancer. They need to study cancer cells and genes and do research so it will lead them to get lots of results. They therefore decided to build a biobank as store for human samples. In this review I will explain how a biobank is very important for finding treatments; how people can understand the benefits they can derive from a biobank and how to encourage them to donate to biobanks. It is important that they know their rights as to keeping their information safe, and researchers must be able to answer donors' questions. My goal is to encourage people to donate to biobanks to build a huge database which will lead scientists to discover more and better treatments for disease.

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