Table 10 |
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Average size of tumor present in tissue blocks. The average size of tumor present on the blocks for rare tumor types retrieved and reported from a pool of 400 cases from all SPIN centers. Rare Tumors |
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Tumor Size |
Largest block containing tumor (cm) |
2nd largest block with tumor (cm) |
3rd largest block with tumor (cm) |
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n |
286 |
221 |
167 |
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AVERAGE |
1.555 |
1.523 |
1.596^ |
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MAX |
2.6 |
2.7 |
2.8 |
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MIN |
0.1 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
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STDEV |
0.854 |
0.820 |
0.726 |
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^The average size is based on all cases that reported the third block. Cases with large volume tumors had many blocks with large sizes of tumor (≥3 blocks), whereas, small volume tumors had fewer blocks with tumor available (< 3 blocks). The total number of the 3rd block with the presence of tumor was many from large volume tumors, thus the higher average size compared to largest block #1. |
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Patel et al. BMC Cancer 2007 7:37 doi:10.1186/1471-2407-7-37 |
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