project

UW–Fred Hutch metastatic bladder cancer rapid autopsy programme

Tissue collection programme run jointly by the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center that takes tumour and benign samples from bladder cancer patients within hours of death, weighted towards rarer urothelial histologies.

Known aliases

UW–Fred Hutch BLCA rapid autopsy programme

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

science1 publisher

Twenty rapid autopsies show bladder cancer metastases mostly seeding other metastases

A University of Washington and Fred Hutch autopsy programme sequenced tumours from 20 people who died of bladder cancer to reconstruct how the disease spread. Plasmacytoid tumours turned out to limit the genomic damage chemotherapy leaves behind.

Publishers:nature.com

Reality

Evidence74
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+8
Incentives55
Confidence66