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1 and pathology reports.
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2 Glass slides are about, oh, about two and
3 three-quarters inches long, three-quarters inches wide
4 and 16th of an inch thick and they would have a piece
5 of tissue on it from a person's body, say the pleura
6 in Mr. Grewe's case, which has been stained by dye so
7 I could see it through a microscope.
8 What I would do is look at that tissue
9 through a microscope and determine if there was a
10 cancer or some other condition present. If there was
11 a cancer present, I would try to tell what type of
12 cancer it was.
13 With the paraffin blocks, it is about like
14 this, say three-quarters by half an inch by about a
15 quarter of an inch, and that paraffin block contains
16 the tissue that was taken from the body that has been
17 processed in a certain way and infiltrated with wax so
18 we could put it into this machine called a microtome
19 so we could make very thin slices of it to put on
20 these slides that we stain with dyes.
21 In Mr. Grewe's case I examined the medical