What are the advantages of molecular diagnostic testing?
As a patient, you will appreciate the fact that molecular diagnostic testing can be performed on very small amounts of tissue obtained from many different types of procedures, including small biopsies and fine-needle aspirates. Testing can even be performed on archival material (material that has been collected in the past and fixed in formalin). It is usually not necessary to take extra tissue for these tests, since most of them can be performed on tissue that is left over after routine diagnostic analysis.
