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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Yang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5915029 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cancer biology & therapy 20180222 5
Gastric carcinoma (GC) is a common gastrointestinal malignancy with high incidence and mortality worldwide, and most patients are diagnosed in the late stages of disease. Palliative chemotherapy provides a survival benefit for patients with inoperable advanced GC. However, elderly patients who are unable to tolerate chemotherapy had worse prognosis due to lack of effective treatment. Herein we reported a Chinese elderly GC patient using next generation sequencing (NGS)-based tumor DNA analysis. ...[more]