Specimen Access and Use Central Banking of and Access to Research Specimens Specimens from a clinical trial, particularly FFPE tissues, must be consolidated in a central bank independent from industry ...

An extraction process that reliably produces sufficient DNA yield and fragment sizes from precious FFPE samples is a necessity for any molecular pathology laboratory Researchers and clinicians want to ...

Today, clinical decisions regarding cancer therapy are largely informed by histologic evaluation and perhaps analysis of select molecular biomarkers associated with the particular tumor. However, ...

These recommendations are meant to promote identifiable standards for specimen collection and handling within and across breast cancer trials, such that the variability in collection/handling ...