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Favorable Prognosis and High Discrepancy of Genetic Features in Surgical Patients With Multiple Primary Lung Cancers
Saturday, January 13, 2018
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Source Name: Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
The authors studied survival in patients with multiple lung cancers and their associated genetic mutations. There was 90% discordance in driver mutations beween cancers in individual patients that was associated with favorable survival. The two patients in whom condordance was present suffered recurrent cancer.