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Importance of cell-procurement methods in transforming personalized cancer treatment from concept to reality
1University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Department of Pathology, 100 High Street, Buffalo NY 14203, USA. mojica@buffalo.edu.
Abstract:
The much-anticipated promise of personalized cancer care is to deliver therapies best suited for a patient based on the knowledge of that individual's genetics and tumor characteristics. This transformative approach will require many changes in the scientific and medical community, one of the most fundamental being the direct study of human tissue biospecimens. Biospecimens will be integral to the elucidation of biomarkers that will help identify and serve as potential diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic targets in cancer. Despite the vast repositories of fixed-tissue biospecimens that are in existence, a number of flaws exist that hinder their reliable use as instruments from which to enable personalized cancer research and clinical care. A new view of biospecimen worth in the future will mandate that the molecules within its cells are reflective of their in vivo state, and not altered by external variables introduced during the excision and processing of the biospecimen. Research on biospecimen collection is a legitimate field of study that will be necessary for personalized cancer care to become a reality.
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