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Molecular analysis of multifocal prostate cancer lesions
1 Jul 1999
Abstract excerpt
To analyse the origin of multifocal prostate cancer lesions, radical prostatectomy specimens from 17 patients were examined. As a marker of genetic lineage, the allelotype based on 33 microsatellite loci was compared between the different tumours present in a given case. Some results provide evidence suggestive of a clonal origin of multiple tumours in a subset of the prostates. In five cases, for example,...
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