[Histonet] The Biopsy Chip for high throughput pathology in prostate cancer (and other organs, the list is open..)

[Sorin Musat]

Dear Histoneters,


I am a new subscriber to Histonet,
albeit I've been following this great website for at least 10 years.


I would like to post some information about a new medical device I invented and
patented (the Biopsy Chip).
This device was intended for increasing the efficiency of processing and
sectioning prostate biopsies, but can be used for other organs that require
multiple biopsies (breast, thyroid, skin, etc.,) as well as for friable
tissues (bone marrow).


For a quick preview, I uploaded on
youtube a little movie clip we presented at The Romanian Annual Congress of
Urology in 2011 (summarizing the results of our first pilot study):

"High Throughput Biopsy Chip for the detection of Prostate Cancer":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP1iiE3CEn0



After we patented and registered
the medical device under the authority of the Romanian Ministry of Health, this
technique was employed for over 2000 patients so far in a number of Romanian
hospitals. We had very good results (significant economies in time and
consumables + higher yield of tissue on the slides + more tissue left within
the block + increased accuracy of the diagnostic). We already presented a couple of abstracts at 3 Urology conferences and we will publish very
soon a full-length paper discussing our results.

We believe that the Biopsy Chip is the first application of tissue microarrays in clinical
diagnostic. Presently we are trying to find collaborators in order to test the
Biopsy Chip for other organs/pathologies besides prostate cancer.

We welcome any comments and suggestions. If anyone wants more information about
this device I will be very happy to answer your questions. If appropriate, I
could also upload a presentation on Histonet server.

Sincerely

Sorin Musat, MD, PhD
THEMIS Pathology (formerly HistoBest Inc, Edmonton, AB, Canada)
Bucharest, Romania
mobile: (4)0768 735 194 / 0725 653 551
email: s_musat <@t> yahoo.com
skype: sorin.musat2