High-throughput screening articles within Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

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    Insights into tumour biology require biospecimens from the primary tumour and those that reflect the patient's disease in specific contexts. Tumour samples must be representative, viable, and adequate both in quantity and quality for subsequent molecular applications. This Review article outlines the existing procedures for sample procurement and processing of next-generation biospecimens, and highlights the issues involved in this endeavour.

    • Mark Basik
    • , Adriana Aguilar-Mahecha
    •  & Gerald Batist