This patient support community is for discussions relating to breast cancer, biopsy, genetics, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, lumps, lumpectomy, lymph node dissection, lymphedema, mammograms, mastectomy, radiation therapy, reconstruction, self exams, and stage 3 and 4 treatments.
Fluorescence in situ Hybridization or FISH is a type of diagnostic test involving DNA hybridization. It is simple, fast, and reliable procedure. Peripheral blood cells, cultured cell lines, bone marrow cells, paraffin-embedded tissue sections, and frozen tissues are the specimens that can be used for FISH analysis.