Community Hospitals Time Tissue Handling

March 1, 2016

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February 2016 by Kevin B. O’Reilly, CAP TODAY Senior Editor – The great promise of genomics and actionable cancer biomarkers relies on cancer tissues being handled in the right way so they are suitable for study. Reducing cold ischemia time and the total time that biospecimens spend in formalin is key to the process, say guidelines from the CAP and the American Society of Clinical Oncology on HER2 and on estrogen receptor and progesterone receptor testing in breast cancer specimens.

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