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Tumor Evolution in Two Patients with Basal-like Breast Cancer: A Retrospective Genomics Study of Multiple Metastases.
PLoS medicine - 1 Dec 2016
Hoadley Katherine A, Siegel Marni B, Kanchi Krishna L, Miller Christopher A, Ding Li, Zhao Wei, He Xiaping, Parker Joel S, Wendl Michael C, Fulton Robert S, Demeter Ryan T, Wilson Richard K, Carey Lisa A, Perou Charles M, Mardis Elaine R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Metastasis is the main cause of cancer patient deaths and remains a poorly characterized process. It is still unclear when in tumor progression the ability to metastasize arises and whether this ability is inherent to the primary tumor or is acquired well after primary tumor formation. Next-generation sequencing and analytical methods to define clonal heterogeneity provide a means for identifying...
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