Studies

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Due to significant cuts in reimbursement, more efficient histology techniques are needed to maintain the economic viability of the histology laboratory. There is also an increasing need to maximize tissue preservation for ancillary testing. The BxChip®(Leavitt Medical Inc. Patent Pending) is a clinical tissue array made of an artificial tissue-like material which easily receives and holds multiple tissue cores. Encasing numerous needle cores, enables the arrayed samples to be processed, embedded and sectioned as though they were a single standard tissue. Colored dividers between each core allow the pathologist to distinguish different anatomic sites, while providing orientation of each core. The purpose of this study is to compare the overall prostate cancer detection rates and the average amount of tissue present (average area and core-length) on normal slides versus those made with BxChip® clinical tissue arrays.