Assessment of molecular heterogeneity in tumor is a challenging task. Palanisamy et al are the first to demonstrate the novel detection of a rare subset of prostate cancer with heterogeneous molecular aberrations involving ETS family genes and SPINK1 expression utilizing both standard immunohistochemistry (IHC) and RNA in situ hybridization (Advanced Cell Diagnostics RNAscope™ Technology). The presenter will discuss the application of RNA ISH technology to reveal previously unidentified molecular subtypes of prostate cancer.
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2. Joshua I Warrick, Scott A Tomlins, Shannon L Carskadon, Allison M Young,Javed Siddiqui, John T Wei, Arul M Chinnaiyan, Lakshmi P Kunju, and Nallasivam Palanisamy Evaluation of tissue PCA3 expression in prostate cancer by RNA in situ hybridization— a correlative study with urine PCA3 and TMPRSS2-ERG Modern Pathology (2014) 27, 609–620
Cancer researchers, pathologists, histologists interested in understanding new molecular techniques to:
- Uncover intra-tumoral heterogeneity
- Understand how measuring RNA expression can uncover details of tumor microenvironments
- Understand cell-specific expression information
- Visualize RNA targets in the full context of tissue architecture and/or measure regional RNA distribution
- Quantify expression of coding and non-coding RNA including pseudogenes
- How RNAscope technology can be used in cancer research
- How RNAscope technology delivers quantitative molecular detection and morphological context in a single assay
- Ease of using the highly sensitive and specific assay for virtually any gene in any tissue
- Advantages of RNAscope technology vs. other ISH and IHC methods
