Technologist time freed up by the robot on these tests enabled us to add a
progesterone receptor assay, which physicians had long sought.
It has certainly lagged significantly behind estrogen and
progesterone receptor assay validation.
Evaluation of three commercial
progesterone receptor assays in a single tamoxifen-treated breast cancer cohort.
The individual attention to each specimen that estradiol and
progesterone receptor assays require, for example, limits the number of specimens in a batch.