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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2014 Dec;23(12):2681–2687. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-0490

Table 1. Cancer, biospecimen, research focus, and demography, 31 SEER biospecimen articles, 2005–2013.

Attribute Category N References
Cancer Type
Breast 6 (9, 23, 24, 27, 32, 37)
Lymphoma 5 (1113, 26, 28)
Anogenital 5 (15, 17, 20, 25, 34)
Colon and Rectum 4 (18, 29, 30, 38)
Pancreas 4 (8, 21, 35, 36)
Liver 3 (19, 22, 33)
Oropharynx 2 (14, 31)
Lung, Prostate 2 (10, 16 [respectively])
Biospecimen
FFPE Tissues Other Than Arrays 19 (1017, 19, 20, 23, 25, 27, 2931, 34, 37, 38)
Tissue Microarray/Multiple Tumor Arrays 11 (8, 9, 18, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28, 32, 35, 36)
Biomarker
Immunohistochemical Staining 10 (8, 9, 18, 2123, 30, 32, 35, 36)
Genetic Sequences 15 (1017, 19, 20, 26, 28, 29, 31, 34)
Histopathology Markers 4 (24, 25, 27, 37)
DNA Methylation 2 (33, 38)
Demographics
Racial and Ethnic Distribution 15 (9, 1214, 17, 18, 2022, 24, 26, 3538)
Molecular Subtype Distribution 7 (9, 1113, 26, 28, 30)
Trend Projection, Subtype Distribution 2 (14, 15)