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Lineage-Independent Tumors in Bilateral Neuroblastoma.
The New England journal of medicine - 5 Nov 2020
Coorens Tim H H, Farndon Sarah J, Mitchell Thomas J, Jain Neha, Lee Sangjin, Hubank Michael, Sebire Neil, Anderson John, Behjati Sam
Abstract excerpt
Childhood tumors that occur synchronously in different anatomical sites usually represent metastatic disease. However, such tumors can be independent neoplasms. We investigated whether cases of bilateral neuroblastoma represented independent tumors in two children with pathogenic germline mutations by genotyping somatic mutations shared between tumors and blood. Our results suggested that in both children, the...
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