Dried Blood and Serum Spots As A Useful Tool for Sample Storage to Evaluate Cancer BiomarkersLaura Mercatali 1, Patrizia Serra 2, Giacomo Miserocchi 1, Chiara Spadazzi 1, Chiara Liverani 1, Alessandro De Vita 1, Giorgia Marisi 3, Alberto Bongiovanni 1, Federica Recine 1, Akwilina Pangan 4, Nestory Masalu 4, Toni Ibrahim 1, Dino Amadori 1
1Osteoncology and Rare Tumors Center, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy, 2Unit of Biostatistics and Clinical Trials, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy, 3Biosciences Laboratory, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy, 4Department of Oncology, Bugando Medical Center, Mwanza, Tanzania
This protocol describes a simple and useful method to store peripheral blood and serum/plasma for downstream analyses such as single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) evaluation and ELISA assay.
