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The critical importance of careful control to all steps in acquiring and processing tissues for biomarker studies (Taylor 2015) has only quite recently been given the public attention it warrants, at an NCI-NIST Workshop (NCI 2011; Taylor 2011).
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Jasani, B., Huss, R., Taylor, C.R. (2021). Pre-Analytical Phase: Biopsy/Tissue Handling and Processing. In: Precision Cancer Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84087-7_7
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