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AlaskaAngel · 12-29-2005, 07:47 PM

Basically what the researchers in the studies had to do was set some guidelines for the patients who were going to be in the clinical trials because having so many inaccurate HER2 testing results would mess up the studies. Labs that do a high volume of the tests on a steady basis are most likely to have accurate results and I gather that those conducting the studies ended up specifying 6 or 7 labs in central locations (places where there are lots of cancer patients and research going on) where could be used for testing patients for the studies.

So the basic idea is, don't have your testing done in a small facility that occasionally does the test because it might tend to be more subjective and less accurate, and try to have it done in a central major lab near or connected to research facilities where personnel probably are generally more qualified and more frequent periodic testing for accuracy is done to maintain standards.

12-29-2005, 07:47 PM	#2
AlaskaAngel Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Alaska Posts: 2,018	Testing for HER2 Basically what the researchers in the studies had to do was set some guidelines for the patients who were going to be in the clinical trials because having so many inaccurate HER2 testing results would mess up the studies. Labs that do a high volume of the tests on a steady basis are most likely to have accurate results and I gather that those conducting the studies ended up specifying 6 or 7 labs in central locations (places where there are lots of cancer patients and research going on) where could be used for testing patients for the studies. So the basic idea is, don't have your testing done in a small facility that occasionally does the test because it might tend to be more subjective and less accurate, and try to have it done in a central major lab near or connected to research facilities where personnel probably are generally more qualified and more frequent periodic testing for accuracy is done to maintain standards.