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Intratumor heterogeneity and branched evolution revealed by multiregion sequencing

Marco Gerlinger1, Andrew J Rowan1, Stuart Horswell1

  • 1Cancer Research UK London Research Institute (M. Gerlinger, A.J.R., S.H., D.E., E.G., P.M., N.M., A.S., B.P., S.B., N.Q.M., C.R.S., B.S.-D., G.C., G.S., J.D., C.S.), Royal Marsden Hospital Department of Medicine (J.L., M.N., L.P., G.S., M. Gore), Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (P.T., I.V., A.B., D.J., K.R., C.L., P.A.F.), Barts Cancer Institute at the Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry (M. Gerlinger), and the University College London Cancer Institute (C.S.) - all in London; the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby (A.C.E., Z.S.); and Harvard Medical School, Boston (Z.S.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Swanton at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Translational Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY, United Kingdom, or at charles.swanton@cancer.org.uk.

The New England Journal of Medicine
|March 9, 2012
PubMed
Summary

Intratumor heterogeneity, or variations within a tumor, complicates cancer treatment. Understanding this diversity is crucial for developing effective personalized medicine and biomarkers.

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