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research as well and that public confidence must be earned.
It is not going to happen. It must be earned.
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So what are the considerations? We are going
to have to establish standards for population studies using
archival tissue. We are going to have to protect
individuals the best way we can and we are going to have to
address the interests of communities when we do population
studies. We must provide adequate compensation for those
who manage the collections and we have to standardize the
management of the collections. I think those things are
just essential.
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I want to talk a little bit about the
pathologists because I know they talk a lot so I will talk
a little bit about them. They have a fiduciary
responsibility with respect to the patient. They
acknowledge it and they talk a lot about it, and that is to
ensure that what is there is preserved for care, patient
care. They have a fiduciary responsibility also to the
resource itself and this is where we are breaking new
ground where we begin to think of these resources not as
belonging to the pathologist but belonging to the research
enterprise and that the pathologist is the fiduciary of