The authors studied survival in patients with multiple lung cancers and their associated genetic mutations. There was 90% discordance in driver mutations beween cancers in individual patients that was associated with favorable survival. The two patients in whom condordance was present suffered recurrent cancer.
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Favorable Prognosis and High Discrepancy of Genetic Features in Surgical Patients With Multiple Primary Lung Cancers
Submitted by: Mark Ferguson
Source: Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
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Author(s): Kezhong Chen, Wei Chen, Jianqiao Cai, Fan Yang, Feng Lou, Xun Wang, Jingbo Zhang, Mingyu Zhao, Jay Zhang, Jun Wang
