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Lung adenocarcinoma biomarker incidence in Hispanic versus non-Hispanic white patients.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine - 1 Mar 2014
McQuitty Elizabeth, Zhang Wei, Hendrickson Heather, Tio Fermin O, Jagirdar Jaishree, Olsen Randall, Cagle Philip T
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CONTEXT: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States and worldwide. Biomarker testing is critical to personalized therapy in lung adenocarcinoma and has been extensively investigated in non-Hispanic whites, Asians, and African Americans. However, little information addr...
Topics
- Adenocarcinoma
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Biomarkers, Tumor
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Female
- Genotype
- Hispanic or Latino
- Humans
- Lung Neoplasms
- Male
- Middle Aged
- White People