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Genomic analysis of metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15 Mar 2015
Li Yvonne Y, Hanna Glenn J, Laga Alvaro C, Haddad Robert I, Lorch Jochen H, Hammerman Peter S
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PURPOSE: A rare 5% of cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas (cSCC) metastasize, lack FDA-approved therapies, and carry a poor prognosis. Our aim was to identify recurrent genomic alterations in this little-studied population of metastatic cSCCs. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: We performed targeted sequencing of 504 cancer-associated genes on lymph node metastases in 29 patients with cSCC and identified mutations and somatic...
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