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Frequently Asked Questions


Pink Ribbon Are Tissue Microarrays available?

The CBCTR offers breast cancer tissue microarrays (TMAs) for investigations of marker prevalence associated with progression or prognosis of disease. The Progression tissue microarray is intended for researchers wishing to correlate a marker with staging information or with other markers. The Prognostic tissue microarray is designed to detect associations between tumor markers and clinical outcomes within three stages of breast cancer.

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Pink Ribbon Are there charges for Resource services?

The CBCTR will cut and ship the tissue microarray slides after processing fees and shipping charges are paid.

Charges
Item Academic Cost Industry Cost
Tissue Microarray sections for progression studies $1,200/6 slides
(replicate sections from 3 case sets)
$3,600/6 slides
(replicate sections from 3 case sets)
Additional TMA sections for progression studies $600/3 slides
(one section from each of 3 case sets)
$1,800/3 slides
(one section from each of 3 case sets)
Tissue Microarray sections for Stage I prognostic studies $2,000/10 slides
(replicate sections from 5 case sets)
$6,000/10 slides
(replicate sections from 5 case sets)
Additional TMA sections for Stage I prognostic studies $1,000/5 slides
(one section from each of 5 case sets)
$3,000/5 slides
(one section from each of 5 case sets)
Tissue Microarray sections for Stage II prognostic studies $1,600/8 slides
(replicate sections from 4 case sets)
$4,800/8 slides
(replicate sections from 4 case sets)
Additional TMA sections for Stage II prognostic studies $800/4 slides
(one section from each of 4 case sets)
$2,400/4 slides
(one section from each of 4 case sets)
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Pink Ribbon Where can I get additional information?

Steve Marroulis
Information Management Services, Inc.
12501 Prosperity Drive, Suite 200
Silver Spring, MD 20904
telephone: (301) 680-9770
e-mail:
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