I believe the 25 cases are for ER/PR/Her-2 testing. We have done this recently
and we ran about 10 for each antibody. We have over 100 ourselves and it took
quite a while. There will be some antibodies that you will be unable to find
10 slides to test, so do as many (or as few) as your Medical Director is
comfortable with to validate the stain.
Good luck!
Ashley Troutman BS, HT(ASCP) QIHC
Immunohistochemistry Supervisor
Vanderbilt University Histopathology
1301 Medical Center Drive TVC 4531
Nashville, TN 37232
Message: 14
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 18:12:42 -0500
From: "Weems, Joyce" <jwe...@sjha.org>
Subject: RE: [Histonet] IHC validation
To: Liz Chlipala <l...@premierlab.com>, Joe Nocito
<jnoc...@satx.rr.com>, Histonet <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu>
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But that is for receptors, correct? Do you do that for everything?
Thanks, j
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[mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Liz Chlipala
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 17:58
To: Joe Nocito; Histonet
Subject: RE: [Histonet] IHC validation
Joe
If you are following the recommendations from the CAP paper on IHC
standardization then it would be 25 tissues (10 strong positive, 10 weak to
moderate positive and 5 negative).
Liz
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From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
[mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Joe Nocito
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 3:44 PM
To: Histonet
Subject: [Histonet] IHC validation
Greetings Histoland,
I need some help. We are about to switch IHC machines from the Richard-Allen
Axiom to the Ventana Benchmark Ultra. How many slides, per antibody, do you run
for the validation study? We have over 100 primary antibodies. Normally, when
we work up a new antibody, we start with a titer. Once that is established, we
run 10 cases to check for specificity. Hopefully we can obtain cases that are
really positive, some weakly positive and some flat out negative. Once that is
completed, we run 10 different tissue types to check for any unexpected
cross-reactivity.
The ultra holds 30 slides and we are receiving two machines. If we run 10
slides/antibody, that's going to take a while, not to mention the number of
detection kits that will be used. Do you think 5 slides/antibody is sufficient?
I emailed CAP last week for their take and they never returned my email (I told
my medical director to hold their check for the year and see how fast they
respond to that). Ah oh, don't go down that road Joe, it's unhealthy. What are
your thoughts?
Thanks
Joe (JTT)
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