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University of New Mexico Human Tissue Repository
A joint project between the Department of Pathology and the University Of New Mexico Cancer Center



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Current Inventory

The numbers in the following table reflect the discrete cases and, parenthetically, the total number of samples from those cases.

This list is updated monthly (Last Update: 10/15/2009).

Specimen

Tumor Frozen

Tumor Paraffin

Normal Frozen

Normal Paraffin

Adrenal Gland

4 (20)

5 (13)

1 (1)

0 (0)

Appendix

1 (1)

1 (1)

1 (3)

1 (1)

Bladder

12 (46)

15 (33)

11 (30)

10 (17)

Bone

19 (69)

18 (32)

4 (8)

0 (0)

Brain

64 (234)

61 (132)

2 (5)

0 (0)

Breast

69 (259)

64 (140)

70 (311)

65 (168)

Colon/Large Intestine

36 (167)

45 (93)

30 (96)

34 (50)

Esophagus

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Fallopian Tube

2 (32)

1 (3)

1 (1)

1 (1)

Gallbladder

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Kidney

52 (232)

48 (104)

48 (173)

43 (66)

Larynx

3 (5)

3 (7)

1 (1)

0 (0)

Liver

15 (46)

10 (19)

8 (23)

5 (5)

Lung

27 (101)

29 (44)

26 (136)

27 (59)

Lymph Node

4 (19)

3 (8)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Mediastinum

3 (13)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Omentum

3 (19)

2 (9)

1 (3)

1 (2)

Oral Cavity

0 (0)

2 (3)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Ovary

61 (518)

53 (186)

19 (60)

13 (21)

Pancreas

4 (19)

12 (23)

4 (13)

6 (11)

Parathyroid Gland

1 (1)

1 (1)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Pharynx

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Pleura

2 (14)

2 (10)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Prostate

11 (29)

12 (25)

8 (20)

7 (12)

Retroperitoneum/Peritoneum 8 (78) 10 (45) 1 (3) 1 (1)

Salivary Gland

6 (16)

11 (15)

5 (9)

7 (7)

Sinonasal Region

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Skin

10 (41)

13 (31)

3 (9)

2 (2)

Small Intestine

1 (5)

1 (3)

1 (2)

1 (1)

Soft Tissue

70 (489)

70 (221)

20 (61)

18 (25)

Stomach

9 (35)

8 (18)

7 (22)

6 (10)

Testis

23 (142)

20 (51)

9 (22)

10 (13)

Thyroid Gland

11 (56)

14 (31)

8 (27)

7 (12)

Thymus 5 (22) 4 (9) 2 (7) 1 (1)

Uterine Body

62 (289)

50 (102)

47 (125)

23 (31)

Uterine Cervix

8 (31)

5 (14)

5 (10)

4 (6)

Vagina

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Vulva

2 (3)

2 (3)

1 (1)

1 (1)

Miscellaneous Other

20 (97)

22 (57)

9 (28)

10 (20)