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A metastasis or a second independent cancer? Evaluating the clonal origin of tumors using array copy number data.
Statistics in medicine - 10 Jul 2010
Ostrovnaya Irina, Olshen Adam B, Seshan Venkatraman E, Orlow Irene, Albertson Donna G, Begg Colin B
Abstract excerpt
When a cancer patient develops a new tumor it is necessary to determine if it is a recurrence (metastasis) of the original cancer, or an entirely new occurrence of the disease. This is accomplished by assessing the histo-pathology of the lesions. However, there are many clinical scenarios in which this pathological diagnosis is difficult. Since each tumor is characterized by a distinct pattern of somatic...
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