Available Specimens

As of May 09, 2013 the Biorepository contains 12,384 fresh frozen normal, tumor and other human tissue samples.  There is also 281 OCT embedded tissues.  There should be corresponding paraffin samples for all fresh frozen specimens in the Department of Pathology.   We have 31,015 frozen blood samples (plasma, buffy coat, and RBC's).  We  have 1,653 buccal cell swabs available for DNA processing. 

Through cooperation with Drs. Christie Ammirati and Elizabeth Billingsley, we are continually collecting squamous cell carcinomas of the skin from the Department of Dermatology.  We have 106 tissues from various body sites with a tumor and a normal sample from each site.  We also have 133 plasma samples from 45 patients with multiple myeloma collected by Dr. Giampaolo Talamo.

If the tissue you are looking for is not listed in the table below,  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 30 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.   

Total Number of Frozen Tissue Samples Available

(Paraffin Blocks are also available for these specimens through the Department of Pathology) please contact Trey @x1044.

http://www.pennstatehershey.org/web/pathology/research/facilities/mmpcrl

 

Tissue Specific Site	Included Tissue	Tumor	Normal	Other
Bone	Entire Body	153	48	9
Brain	Brain	252	13	5
Breast	Breast and Lymph nodes	352	783	42
Cervix	Cervix	28	23	3
Colon	Colon	38	95	10
Head and Neck	Mandible,Neck, Salivary Glands, Oropharynx, Tonsils, Mouth, Larynx, Pharynx, Tongue, and Nose	187	114	27
Liver	Liver	144	96	45
Lung	Lung	92	87	8
Lymph Nodes	Entire Body	287	35	4
Melanoma	Entire Body	47	40	10
Misc Tissue	Bladder, Eye, Heart, Nerve, Spinal Cord, Gallbladder, Mediastinum, and Thymus	222	117	40
Other Gi	Esophagus, Omentum, Stomach, Small Intestine, and Spleen	223	215	73
Ovary	Ovary	198	121	29
Pancreas	Pancreas and Duodenum	96	164	57
Prostate	Prostate	45	75	3
Renal	Kidney and Adrenal	399	281	19
Skin	Entire Body	158	126	6
Soft Tissue	Entire Body	286	102	15
Testicle	Testicle	32	19	0
Thyroid	Thyroid	122	187	66
Uterus	Fallopian Tubes,Myometrium, Endometrium, and Uterus	169	125	18