PSHCI Tissue Bank

Available Specimens

As of November 23, 2009 the Tissue Bank contains just under 9,705 fresh frozen, 281 OCT embedded  normal, tumor and benign tumor samples.   There should be corresponding paraffin samples for all fresh frozen specimens in the Department of Pathology.   We have 23,995 frozen blood samples (plasma, buffy coat, and RBC's).  We  have 1,653 buccal cell swabs available for DNA processing.  We also have 133 plasma samples from 45 patients with multiple myeloma from Dr. Giampaolo Talamo.    If the tissue you are looking for is not listed in the table,  please contact Dan Beard at 717-531-4676 to see if the tissue you need has been banked.

Tissue samples are collected fresh, typically within 25 minutes of surgical resection and classified by the Pathology Department,  at  the Penn State Hershey Medical Center .   The samples are than grossed in and identified by the staff of the Department of Pathology and  then frozen in cryovials and stored at -80 °C.  If you would like to request fresh frozen tissue and/or blood samples, please fill in the PSHCI Tissue Request Form, follow the Instructions for Tissue Requests and send this all to Dan Beard at mail code H072 or fax it to 717-531-0704.    If requesting paraffin blocks of tissue, the Pathology Tissue Request Form also must be filled in and sent.

               Available Fresh Frozen Tissue

              (Paraffin Blocks are also available for these specimens)