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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 12.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Chem Lab Med. 2016 May;54(5):761–771. doi: 10.1515/cclm-2015-1190

Table 1.

Total of sample types (resection, biopsy, and cytology) among each tumor type (NSCLC, colon adenocarcinoma, glioma/glioblastoma, melanoma, and breast carcinomas).

Sample type Total

Resection Biopsy Cytology Othersa
Tumor type
  NSCLC 71 161 169 7 408
  Colon adenocarcinoma 158 137 6 3 304
  Glioma/glioblastoma 108 12 0 0 120
  Melanoma 49 35 6 5 95
  Breast carcinoma 9 14 4 0 27
  Others 26 38 10 0 74
Total 421 397 195 15 1028
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Consult samples.