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Somatic hypermutation and outcomes of platinum based chemotherapy in patients with high grade serous ovarian cancer.
Gynecologic oncology - 1 Jul 2012
Sohn Insuk, Jung Woon Yong, Sung Chang Ohk
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OBJECTIVE: The standard treatment for high grade ovarian serous cancer (HG-OSC) is aggressive cytoreductive surgery followed by platinum based chemotherapy. However, approximately 30% of patients exhibit platinum resistance, and those patients show aggressive clinical courses. Currently, it is difficult to predict which HG-OSC patients will respond to platinum-based chemotherapy. METHODS: We analyzed whole exome...
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