An Important Discovery in Context

to a new platform, the ability to detectthe revised profile from formalin-fixed paraffin-embeddedtissues as well as from fine-needle aspiration biopsies ofintraocular tumors in patients, and preliminary outcomesdata. What has emerged is a clinically useful and accuratemolecular prognostic classification for uveal melanocyticneoplasms. This significant advance appears nearly 80years after Callender’s discovery that the morphology ofuveal melanoma cells is associated with outcome.

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