Hospital characteristics:
1. The Ministry of Health and Welfare-approved biobank, inaugurated in 2013 in Chi Mei Medical Center, collects: frozen tissues and blood specimens of all kinds of cancers; non-tumor specimens like chronic hepatitis and heart tissues. Most of the specimens are of hepatocellular carcinoma, oral cancer, and chronic hepatitis─the characteristics of our biobank.
2. Our biobank in the National Biobank Consortium of Taiwan since 2019 has followed the regulations and procedures and has met the national standards, in terms of the biobank management and specimen quality. It is opened for the applications from the: in-hospital physicians and researchers; out-of-hospital researchers. Thus, it helps resource sharing in different biobanks-bestowed specimens and data.