The CAP has the following to say about this issue (in the FAQ section
on HE= R2 testing):
"The CAP Immu= nohistochemistry
Committee does not advocate
transferring formalin-fi= xed tissues into
alcohol. There are
no data to support the validity= of testing specimens
proces
Recently our IHC vendor sent a tech to help us out with some weak staining
affecting multiple antibodies. Several staining protocols were changed,
including adjusting the incubation time and adding amplification. The
results were great in the slides that I was shown.
The tech said that revali