Yale Pathology Legacy Tissue Donation: The Physician Perspective

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• 00:04My name's Harry Sanchez.
• 00:05I'm the director of the autopsy service,
• 00:08and along with Marcello Destasio,
• 00:10I'm the Co director of the
• 00:13Yale legacy Tissue Donation
• 00:15program. Very much like
• 00:16organ donation programs,
• 00:17people who become part of the
• 00:20legacy tissue donation program help
• 00:22address a pressing medical need.
• 00:24By donating their tissue
• 00:26after they pass away,
• 00:27donors are providing cancer
• 00:29researchers with invaluable
• 00:30tissue that can't be obtained.
• 00:32Any other
• 00:33way, at any price.
• 00:35Clinical scientists have
• 00:36many avenues for research,
• 00:38including animal models,
• 00:39cell culture, surgical specimens
• 00:40and standard autopsies.
• 00:42But each of these has a limitation.
• 00:45Tissues that patients donations
• 00:46provide represent an invaluable
• 00:48resource for us to understand
• 00:50the exact mechanisms by which
• 00:52diseases start and progress.
• 00:54This program is
• 00:55patient driven and completely reliant on
• 00:58the incredible generosity of our donors,
• 01:00a remarkable act of altruism.
• 01:02As the power to advance our understanding
• 01:04of cancer biology and the potential to
• 01:06change the way we treat cancer, there's
• 01:08no way we can thank you enough.