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SUBMITTER: Hassan R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6500142 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hassan Raffit R Morrow Betsy B Thomas Anish A Walsh Tom T Lee Ming K MK Gulsuner Suleyman S Gadiraju Meghana M Panou Vasiliki V Gao Shaojian S Mian Idrees I Khan Javed J Raffeld Mark M Patel Snehal S Xi Liqiang L Wei Jun S JS Hesdorffer Mary M Zhang Jingli J Calzone Kathleen K Desai Arpita A Padiernos Emerson E Alewine Christine C Schrump David S DS Steinberg Seth M SM Kindler Hedy L HL King Mary-Claire MC Churpek Jane E JE
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20190411 18
Survival from malignant mesothelioma, particularly pleural mesothelioma, is very poor. For patients with breast, ovarian, or prostate cancers, overall survival is associated with increased sensitivity to platinum chemotherapy due to loss-of-function mutations in DNA repair genes. The goal of this project was to evaluate, in patients with malignant mesothelioma, the relationship between inherited loss-of-function mutations in DNA repair and other tumor suppressor genes and overall survival follow ...[more]