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Recurrent EML4-ALK-associated lung adenocarcinoma with a slow clinical course.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Sept 2010
Murakami Shuji, Yokose Tomoyuki, Saito Haruhiro, Sakuma Yuji, Matsukuma Shoichi, Hasegawa Chikako, Kondo Tetsuro, Oshita Fumihiro, Ito Hiroyuki, Tsuboi Masahiro, Nakayama Haruhiko, Kameda Youichi, Noda Kazumasa, Yamada Kouzo
Abstract excerpt
The fusion gene EML4-ALK (echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 gene and the anaplastic lymphoma kinase gene) was recently identified as a novel genetic alteration in non-small-cell lung cancer. The clinicopathological features of EML4-ALK-positive adenocarcinoma are reported to include its high incidence in young, non-smoking patients, tumors that show distinct solid or acinar growth patterns with or...
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