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Synchronous primary lung adenocarcinomas harboring distinct MET Exon 14 splice site mutations.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Aug 2018
Wang Samantha X Y, Lei Li, Guo Haiwei H, Shrager Joseph, Kunder Christian A, Neal Joel W
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When a patient is found to have multiple lung tumors, distinguishing whether they represent metastatic nodules or separate primary cancers is crucial for staging and therapy. We report the case of a 79-year-old patient with two surgically resected synchronous left upper lobe adenocarcinomas initially pathologically staged as T3 (IIB), indicating adjuvant chemotherapy should be recommended. However, the tumors...
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