[Histonet] BLOCKS AND SLIDES

Tue Jan 24 08:38:44 CST 2023

Another thing that can be done is to donate them to your closest histology program.  If they have a student lab, blocks are always needed.
If you facility is a teaching hospital, you may already be covered under the initial waiver for uses for teaching, or whatever it's called.  Some programs will pay for shipping, and will re-embed the blocks as well for privacy.

Sincerely,

Toysha N. Mayer, DHSc, MBA, HT (ASCP)
Assistant Professor/Associate Program Director
HTL Program School of Health Professions
MD Anderson Cancer Center
tnmayer at mdanderson.org
713-563-3481 wk
832-710-1837 cell

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:01:39 +0000 (UTC)
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What is the required length of time that you must keep blocks and slides in histology

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The CAP requirement is a minimum of 10 years for both.  Your state's department of health may have different standards.  The strictest standard should always be adhered to.

Stacy McLaughlin, HT(ASCP) QLScm
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Cooley Dickinson Hospital
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It depends on who your most stringent governing body is.  If you have a lab in NY, or that takes specimens from NY, it's 20 years for both.  For CAP it's 10 years.  There may be other states that have more stringent rules, etc.

Bonnie Whitaker
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Don't throw your expired embedded blocks in the trash. Some of them can be very valuable for research and antibody development. If you can provide a brief description of any positive block (no patient identifiers or names please), we will pay you top dollar to take them and send you all shipping labels and documents ahead of time so you can send your entire storage unit to us. We can provide certification that we will properly dispose of and be responsible for the blocks in our possession if our research partners find them of no use. For some specific positive tissues, a single block blocks can be worth over a hundred dollars to our partners.

Please contact us at contactus at springsidesci.com if interested.

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Caution to all--make sure your patients have signed consent forms that will include this use of their tissue.

Bonnie Whitaker
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Don't throw your expired embedded blocks in the trash. Some of them can be very valuable for research and antibody development. If you can provide a brief description of any positive block (no patient identifiers or names please), we will pay you top dollar to take them and send you all shipping labels and documents ahead of time so you can send your entire storage unit to us. We can provide certification that we will properly dispose of and be responsible for the blocks in our possession if our research partners find them of no use. For some specific positive tissues, a single block blocks can be worth over a hundred dollars to our partners.

Please contact us at contactus at springsidesci.com if interested.

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If that were true, all cancer research and antibody development in the USA would come to a complete halt. Get a signature from someone who died of cancer 10 years ago??  Here are the findings of most US courts. Here are the facts.

In legal disputes concerning the research use of excised tissues, courts consistently have rejected the idea that patients are the owners of their excised tissues or retain any property rights. While only three cases have been adjudicated to date, the findings (in both state and federal courts) have been consistent: patients do not have individual ownership, retain property rights, or have complete control over research use of their excised tissues.9,

Contact your legal Counsil to find the tructh.  We do not want any patient identifiers or case numbers.

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 21:54:50 +0000
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The law is the law in the USA. So far the unanoumous decisions across the USA courts have been very clear.  For those who are being super cautious despite the prevailing laws of the USA, You are doing very little to help develop new antibodies and enhance cancer research.
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Caution to all--make sure your patients have signed consent forms that will include this use of their tissue.

Bonnie Whitaker
Ohio State University
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Don't throw your expired embedded blocks in the trash. Some of them can be very valuable for research and antibody development. If you can provide a brief description of any positive block (no patient identifiers or names please), we will pay you top dollar to take them and send you all shipping labels and documents ahead of time so you can send your entire storage unit to us. We can provide certification that we will properly dispose of and be responsible for the blocks in our possession if our research partners find them of no use. For some specific positive tissues, a single block blocks can be worth over a hundred dollars to our partners.

Please contact us at contactus at springsidesci.com if interested.

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