tissue testing

[ElaineM]

I have a question about testing tissue removed from a person's body during cancer surgery.
It seems I read about it somewhere and stored it in the sub consconcious of my brain computer, but I have not be able to bring it up.
What is the name of the test?
It is done in a lab and is a full panel test. it is not oncotype dx, topo 2A. It can test for more than her 2, so it is not a fish test or a test to determine estrogen or progesterone positive. I wonder if it is a kind of gene expression profiling test? It can be done for new patients and patients with metastatic disease.
They take several pieces of cancerous tissue and add different kinds of chemotherapies and cancer medicines to each piece of tissue to see which cancer medicine or which chemotherapy will work the best.
Does anybody know what the name of this test is or which lab can do this test?
Thanks in advance for your help.

[Rich66]

rational therapeutics: http://www.rational-t.com/ Although..tissue needs be of substantial size and handled precisely and transported to lab uqickly.

[ElaineM]

Thanks Rich. I am going to check it out. This is an important subject for alot of us.
Any other suggestions out there?

[Darlene Denise]

Elaine: I know of a blood test that is done by Remission Labs in NY. It is my understanding there are other labs that offer a similar test. I would be interested in knowing if anyone out there has used such a test and if it proved to be helpful.

Hope this helps.

Darlene

[ElaineM]

Thanks !! Interesting !!!
I heard about another one too.
http://www.precisiontherapeutics.com/
Has anyone tried any of these?
It seems to me that testing tissue or blood to see which chemo combo would work the best would is a good idea.

[Jackie07]

I think you were thinking about gdpawel's postings. There were people accusing him of advertising for a certain lab doing a cell culture (?) assay. I put his name in the 'Search' mode and came up with all postings involving him including this one by Lani:

"for gdpawel and others interested in chemosensitivity assays to predict effectiveness"

The article Lani cited was published in 2007. There are probably more information available now.

I remember having done some checking when I first encountered the information Mr. Pawel provided. The average survival time seemed to be lengthened by about 3 to 6 months.

[ElaineM]

I am bumping this up for anyone who is trying to make decisions about cancer treatment.
http://www.precisiontherapeutics.com/
Also there was a good article in the local paper from the Associated Press with the title "Tumors' genes could guid chemotherapy" about individualizing treatment and finding out which cancer treatments would give a person the best chance of long term survival.