Flow Cytometric Analysis of Benign and Malignant Tumors

流式细胞仪为NCI临床方案提供广泛的支持，为白血病和淋巴瘤患者提供NCI临床方案或正在进行测试以确定是否符合上述方案的诊断测试。流式细胞术单元为NCI和NIH患者的血液、骨髓、细针抽吸、组织活检和体液提供临床流式细胞术评估。由流式细胞仪进行的大多数流式细胞仪检测涉及微小残留疾病的检测（患者在NCI方案入组前在外部机构治疗后的状态）和各种临床方案规定的特定肿瘤细胞特征的测量。该单位的重大努力致力于提供商业实验室不提供的许多独特的协议规定的分析。流式细胞术组还积极参与NIH工作人员和医学界在医疗实践中流式细胞术的适当效用的教育。

The Flow Cytometry Unit provides extensive support for NCI clinical protocols by providing diagnostic testing for leukemia and lymphoma in patients either on NCI clinical protocols or undergoing testing to determine eligibility for said protocols. The Flow Cytometry Unit provides clinical flow cytometric evaluation of blood, bone marrow, fine needle aspirates, tissue biopsies and body fluids for hematolymphoid neoplasia in NCI and NIH patients. The majority of flow cytometric testing performed by the Flow Cytometry Unit involves detection of minimal residual disease (patients are status post therapy at outside institution prior to enrollment on NCI protocol) and measurement of specific tumor cell characteristics mandated by various clinical protocols. Significant effort in the unit is devoted to delivery of numerous unique protocol mandated assays that are not offered by commercial laboratories. The Flow Cytometry Unit is also actively engaged in education of the NIH staff and medical community at large in the proper utility of flow cytometry in medical practice.