Years of blood and tissue samples helps DoD make major contribution to Cancer Moonshot

For more than 25 years, the Department of Defense has collected and stored blood serum from all of its members, and the tissues of many. Those millions of samples are being stored at the Department of Defense Serum Repository in Silver Spring, Maryland, along with a tumor bio-repository run by the Murtha Cancer Center.

These efforts are paying off for the national Cancer Moonshot, the White House-led effort to make 10 years of progress against cancer in just five years by bringing together resources from the government and private sectors.