A tumor sample is removed from a patient, then treated with the hapten 2,4-Dinitrophenol.
The tumor sample in lane 6 was degraded and was not analyzed further.
The test looks at the activity levels of 21 genes in tumor samples.
Agendia's requires fresh frozen tumor samples, which are not always obtained.
The work would cost nearly $1 million per tumor sample today, or a total of about $12.5 billion, according to the committee's proposal.
The decision will depend upon factors like the availability of tumor samples.
Copy number changes can be seen in both germline and tumor samples.
The medical school lost 90,000 research animals, 60,000 tumor samples, and 25 years of research data.
It was found in 96% of the tumor samples.
The team plans to decode the genomes of more than 600 childhood cancer patients who have contributed tumor samples.
