Contributions of the Salt Lake City VA to national research for Veterans:
The SLC team led by Candace Haroldsen establishes deidentified data tables for research with VA-MAPP images and specimen. Dr. Kane Walsh, chief of Pathology, and his team are sending thousands of slides for scanning to the Great Los Angeles VA.
The George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center at the Salt Lake City VA is a VA-MAPP site
The VA-MAPP Biorepository
PREDICTING METASTATIC PROGRESSION OF HIGH RISK LOCALIZED PROSTATE CANCER
Isla Garraway, MD PhD
UCLA and Greater Los Angeles VA
Professor, Department of Urology David Geffen, UCLA School of Medicine
Collaboration Prognostic and predictive biomarkers of chromosomal instability in prostate cancer VA-MAPP image and biospecimen repository
Publications Chromosomal instability in untreated primary prostate cancer as an indicator of metastatic potential. BMC Cancer. 2020 Clonal diversity revealed by morphoproteomic and copy number profiles of single prostate cancer cells at diagnosis. Converg Sci Phys Oncol. 2018 Impact of treatment on progression to castration-resistance, metastases, and death in men with localized high-grade prostate cancer. Cancer Med. 2017