# Biobank of the National Cancer Institute (Slovakia)

Source: https://onco.cc/collections/biobank-nci-slovakia/  
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## TL;DR

The biobank of Slovakia's National Cancer Institute in Bratislava. Its largest collection follows men with testicular cancer over many years; it also keeps samples from breast, bowel, pancreatic, lymphoma and bladder cancer patients.

## Summary

The directory describes it as a project-oriented biobank for the systematic collection, processing and long-term archiving of biological samples, primarily from patients with testicular germ cell tumours, breast, pancreatic and colorectal cancer, malignant lymphoma and urothelial cancer. Its juridical person is Národný onkologický ústav. Collections read on 4 November 2026: material from germ cell tumour patients including long-term follow-up (44,114 samples from 1,002 donors); plasma, blood and fresh-frozen tumour from colorectal cancer (13,135 from 1,745); plasma, blood and FFPE from breast cancer (8,527 from 885); plasma, blood, serum, urine and stool from malignant lymphoma (2,605 from 67); and plasma, blood and fresh-frozen tumour from pancreatic cancer (1,073 from 205).

## Fields

- Kind: Collection
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: NCI Biobank Bratislava; Biobanka Národného onkologického ústavu
- URL: https://directory.bbmri-eric.eu/ERIC/directory/
- Holds: A project-oriented biobank of the National Cancer Institute in Bratislava; five collections in the BBMRI-ERIC Directory: testicular germ cell tumours (44,114 samples from 1,002 donors, including long-term follow-up), colorectal (13,135), breast (8,527), lymphoma (2,605) and pancreatic cancer (1,073).

## Notes

- Directory id bbmri-eric:ID:SK_NCI. Description, juridical person and collection counts read from the BBMRI-ERIC Directory GraphQL endpoint (https://directory.bbmri-eric.eu/ERIC/graphql) on 4 November 2026; counts are what the biobank reported to the directory, not an audit.
- No website is given in the directory, and OnCo has no record for the Slovak National Cancer Institute (Národný onkologický ústav), so the host is named but not linked. The urothelial cancer collection is named in the description but not among the five collections listed.

## Sources

- Biobank of the National Cancer Institute (Slovakia): https://directory.bbmri-eric.eu/ERIC/directory/

## Connected records

- institutions: [BBMRI-ERIC (Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure)](https://onco.cc/institutions/bbmri-eric/)
- cancers: [Bladder & urothelial cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/urothelial/), [Colorectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/), [Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/pancreatic/), [Testicular germ cell tumours](https://onco.cc/cancers/testicular/)
- technologies: [Biobanking and tissue procurement](https://onco.cc/technologies/biobanking/)

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