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Contact: Jim Dryden
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Washington University School of Medicine
Caption: Using very small amounts of tumor tissue collected by a needle biopsy, doctors can conduct gene expression profile testing to determine the likelihood that an ocular melanoma tumor will spread beyond the eye.
Credit: Harbour laboratory
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