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The Cooperative Breast Cancer Tissue Resource: Archival Tissue For The Investigation Of Tumor Markers, Helen Donis-Keller, Andrew Glass, Carolyn Mies, Jose Russo, Barbara Zehnbauer, Sheila Taube, Roger Aamodt
The Cooperative Breast Cancer Tissue Resource: Archival Tissue For The Investigation Of Tumor Markers, Helen Donis-Keller, Andrew Glass, Carolyn Mies, Jose Russo, Barbara Zehnbauer, Sheila Taube, Roger Aamodt
Helen Donis-Keller
Investigators continue to search for reliable markers of prognosis of breast cancer. For many analyses, laboratory techniques permit the use of archival paraffin-embedded tissue collected years previously and readily linked to clinical and follow-up information. Laboratory investigators have often expressed the need for such a tissue resource. We have developed a publicly availableresource of archival breast cancer specimens. The pathological material has been collected and reviewed by investigators at four institutions and currently includes breast cancer specimens from more than 9300 cases. Institutional pathologists reviewed slides and blocks using a common protocol and coding scheme. Clinical information and details of …