The B-CAST project was an EU Horizon 2020 project that focused on better understanding breast cancer risk profiles by combining genetic and lifestyle information, and linking these with prognosis.
The main outcomes of the B-CAST project include:
- Characterization of over 25,000 tumours embedded in Tissue Micro Arrays using 15 different immunohistochemical markers.
- An image management system including transfer, harmonization, and archiving of over 600,000 images.
- Extraction of DNA and RNA of 10,000 breast tumours.
- Development of a breast cancer sequencing panel, including 323 genes, which we applied to the DNA from 10,000 tumours.
More details for the B-CAST project can be found here.