The CDP 2008 Series Stage II Prognostic TMA represents a collection of 398 stage II invasive breast cancer tissue specimens with associated clinico-pathologic data and clinical follow-up information. These cases are divided into four non-overlapping case sets. The case sets are labeled case sets 14-17 to distinguish them from case sets used on previous TMAs. Each case set is arrayed in quadruplicate, producing a total of 16 TMA blocks. The table below gives the distribution of breast tissue and control samples across the 4 case sets. The number of cores represented on any single TMA section is 127-128 (107-108 breast tissue cores + 20 control cores). Normal breast epithelium cores will be 1.0 mm and all other cores will be 0.6 mm in diameter. An applicant whose request for the Stage II Prognostic TMA is approved would be required to accept TMAs from all four case sets, with a minimum of two sections (from different replicate blocks) from each case set. Thus, the minimum number of TMA sections that any investigator would receive is eight (4 case sets √ó 2 replicate TMA blocks per case set √ó 1 section per TMA block).

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Breast Stage II Prognostic TMA Tissue List

Specimens represented in the CDP 2008 Series Stage II Prognostic TMA case sets. Each case set is used to produce quadruplicate TMA blocks, so numbers presented in table should be multiplied by four to obtain the number of cores required for the full Stage II TMA set.

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