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From the work of others in the field, Dubochet became convinced that in order to overcome the problem, biological specimens would need to be imaged in a frozen state.

The number of specimens needed to find one case on the first smear was 7. When comparing the second smear to the first smear, 19 specimens would need to be examined before finding another positive one.

Future studies with larger series of matched biopsy/autopsy specimens would need to be conducted in order to determine if anaplastic progression occurs in DIPG between diagnosis and autopsy.

The area exposed using the technique described in this study could potentially hold a larger defect up to 25 mm as performed in cadaveric specimens, but this would need to be evaluated in vivo.

A major potential problem of RT-PCR analysis of FNB samples of SLNs is the issue of false-positive and false-negative results in such specimens and this would need to be assessed before the technique could be used in clinical practice.

For cultures, only 4 specimens would be needed to find a positive result on the first specimen but when comparing the yield of the second culture to the first culture, the NND would be 33.

"Without plastination you just couldn't display a specimen like this – imagine the giant liquid tank you would need to display it," he said.

However, since TURP is no longer a common means of diagnosis of prostate cancer, any practicable test would need to be useful on needle biopsy specimens.

For a 'proof of concept' study lower sample numbers are generally acceptable, but findings would need to be validated in a larger set of specimens.

In addition, many of these biobanks managed specimens collected as part of clinical trials protocols, so any informatics system would need to be able to interoperate with a clinical trials management system.

Farrell also offered a caveat, that while there would be flexibility in procedures she would need to speak with physicians and that the availability of specimens depends on, among others things, the anatomy of the patient.