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It seems like they are doing more than that, though. Cancer data has been collected (by law) and stored for decades. I'd be curious to see if FlatIron was using historical records from Cancer Registries (California's Cancer Registry has millions of cases, for example), or just "EMR and billing systems".

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>Cancer data has been collected (by law) and stored for decades

Have tissue samples been stored as well over the decades? I am not sure about DNA preservation over the years, but it might at least give us some ideas of cancer, especially inheritance issues surrounding cancer.

You are correct about the tissue samples. CCR mostly collects treatment, demographic, and disease information. I didn't get the feeling from their website that FlatIron was collecting tissue samples, either, though.

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