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Alterations of a spectrum of driver genes in female Chinese patients with advanced or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the lung.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Feb 2015
Qiong Zhao, Na Wang Yi, Bo Wang, Zhu Zeng, Ling Peng, Bo Mou Hai, Min Tang Ye, Lei Zeng, Na Hu Dan, Bo Zhao, Fang Liu Jun, Seng Zheng Shu
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OBJECTIVES: Female patients with squamous cell carcinomas of the lung (SQCLC) in China differ from male patients in that most females are life-long never/light smokers. We hypothesized that the clinical characteristics and mutation profiles of a spectrum of driver genes in Chinese female patients with advanced SQCLC would also differ from those of male patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We examined the pathological...
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