Now a research team has developed a simple assay that can reveal the evolutionary relationships among
various tumor sites within a patient, information that may someday help with treatment planning.
Not exact matches
Patients»
tumors may have
various genetic changes; there can be different changes in different parts of the same
tumor, as well as in different
sites where the
tumor spreads in the body.
One limitation of our study is the use of metastatic samples from
various organ
sites, potentially influencing expression via differences from the organ - specific
tumor microenvironment.