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Identical epidermal growth factor receptor mutations in adenocarcinomatous and squamous cell carcinomatous components of adenosquamous carcinoma of the lung.
Cancer - 1 Feb 2007
Kang Shin Myung, Kang Hyun Ju, Shin Ju Hye, Kim Hoguen, Shin Dong Hwan, Kim Se Kyu, Kim Joo-Hang, Chung Kyung Young, Kim Sung Kyu, Chang Joon
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BACKGROUND: Adenosquamous carcinoma of the lung is composed of adenocarcinomatous and squamous cell carcinomatous components. The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations occur mostly in adenocarcinomas and rarely in squamous cell carcinoma of lung. Attempts to investigate the EGFR mutation status in each component of adenosquamous carcinoma and to characterize the patients according to mutation status...
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