West Virginia University Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center - Pathology and Histology Core

The Anatomic Pathology Division of the Pathology Department offers various services, including the Autopsy Service, Surgical Pathology, Cytopathology and Neuropathology analysis. This group has a collection of paraffin embedded tissues that can be accessed for immunohistochemical analysis. A centralized Histology Laboratory, which provides routine processing, sectioning and staining of body tissues, as well as a wide variety of special stains and advanced immunohistochemical procedures are available on a charge basis. On-site technicians will section requested tissues and perform immunohistochemical labeling on a charge basis. Optionally, sections can be mounted on slides and the investigator may process immunohistochemical labeling. This section prepares 250,000 slides a year for pathologic examination. In the Cytopathology Laboratory, cellular morphology studies are performed on a variety of specimens, including gynecologic smears, body fluids and fine needle aspirations. The Cytopathology Laboratory examines 8,000 gynecologic specimens and 2,500 non-gynecologic specimens annually. About 300 fine needle aspirations are performed each year.

It is the goal of the Pathology Laboratory for Translational Medicine to provide the research community with the technical services necessary for growth and development in the world of investigative research. The services that will be provided by the laboratory are essential to an institution upholding a status of high recognition nationally and internationally. At a time when new discoveries generated by basic biomedical research are applied to pathology practice, accessibility to the most modern scientific methods becomes imperative.