In an effort to become more competitive, to increase profitability and improve quality, and to meet or exceed a customer’s schedule, companies are turning to automated processes that are based on ...

Physicians say that traditional specimen handling methods threaten to slow the benefits of using genetic sequencing to diagnose and treat cancer. Routine freezing of tissue would retain its genetic ...

Recommendations for Collection and Handling of Specimens From Group Breast Cancer Clinical Trials. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the ...

Nine statements developed, including performing 4 or more vs 3 or fewer needle passes in suspected malignant disease. HealthDay News — In a new clinical guideline issued by the American College of ...

Glenview, Illinois – The American College of Chest Physicians ® (CHEST) recently released a new clinical guideline on endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) ...

The 2009 International Society of Urological Pathology consensus conference in Boston made recommendations regarding the standardization of pathology reporting of radical prostatectomy specimens.

The specimen of choice that enables the collection of small blood volumes from neonatal or critically ill patients is a capillary blood specimen. This specimen type has gained favour with many ...

TECHNETIUM 99M MAY NOW BE USED TO IDENTIFY sentinel nodes for surgical excision in a growing number of cancer sites. The pathology specimens of these sentinel nodes and of any injected tumoural sites ...

Princess Margaret Hospital has apologised for an incident involving the handling of specimens. The hospital said 10 deep throat saliva specimens submitted on October 10, which were scheduled to be ...

Recommendations for specimen collection and handling have been developed for adoption across breast cancer clinical trials conducted by the Breast International Group (BIG)-sponsored Groups and the ...