Rapid research autopsy is a stealthy but growing contributor to cancer research

Eleonora Duregon; Jowaly Schneider; Angelo M DeMarzo; Jody E Hooper

doi:10.1002/cncr.32184

Rapid research autopsy is a stealthy but growing contributor to cancer research

Cancer. 2019 Sep 1;125(17):2915-2919. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32184. Epub 2019 May 15.

Authors

Eleonora Duregon¹, Jowaly Schneider¹, Angelo M DeMarzo¹, Jody E Hooper¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Abstract

Rapid autopsy has been shown to be a powerful tool for advancing research at essentially no risk and with no distress to the contributing patient. Academic and health centers with a substantial investment in cancer research should consider using this emerging research support modality.

Keywords: autopsy; cancer research; metastases; postmortem; rapid autopsy; tumor heterogeneity.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Autopsy / methods*
Biomedical Research / organization & administration*
Biopsy
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
Humans
Neoplasms / genetics
Neoplasms / pathology*
Single-Cell Analysis

Grants and funding

P30 CA006973/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States