Precision needle-punch tumor enrichment from paraffin blocks improves the detection of clinically actionable genomic alterations and biomarkers
Lin D, Huang R, Ladas I, Keller R, Patel N, Lakis S, Decker B, Janovitz T, Mata D, Ross J, Vergilio J, Elvin J, Herbst R, Mack P, Killian J. Precision needle-punch tumor enrichment from paraffin blocks improves the detection of clinically actionable genomic alterations and biomarkers. Frontiers In Oncology 2024, 14: 1328512. PMID: 38444675, PMCID: PMC10912171, DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2024.1328512.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTumor mutational burdenTumor purityTumor specimensNext-generation sequencingClinically actionable genomic alterationsMicrosatellite instabilityBiomarker statusTissue-conserving methodTissue blocksHigh tumor purityLow tumor purityComplex biomarkersSurgical pathology materialClinical samplesClinical trial enrollmentVariant allele frequencyResidual tumorMutational burdenTumor enrichmentTumor contentTumor cellsGenomic alterationsFormalin-fixedParaffin blocksDetect mutations