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Racial diversity of actionable mutations in non-small cell lung cancer.
Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer - 1 Feb 2015
Bollig-Fischer Aliccia, Chen Wei, Gadgeel Shirish M, Wenzlaff Angela S, Cote Michele L, Schwartz Ann G, Bepler Gerold
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the US. The reasons for higher incidence and poorer survival rates among black compared with white lung cancer patients have not been defined. We hypothesized that differential incidence of somatic cancer gene mutations may be a contributing factor. Previous genomic studies of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have not adequately...
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