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. 2021 May 1;27(9):2375-2377.
doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-21-0139. Epub 2021 Mar 2.

New Insights into the Molecular Profile of Penile Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Bradley A McGregor  1 , Guru P Sonpavde  2
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New Insights into the Molecular Profile of Penile Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Bradley A McGregor et al. Clin Cancer Res. .

Abstract

Genomic alterations in penile squamous cell carcinoma (PSCC) appear similar to squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck and esophagus but not lung, skin, bladder, and cervix. PSCCs display genomic heterogeneity, low mutation burden, and potentially actionable alterations in the Notch, DNA repair, kinase, and cell-cycle pathways.See related article by Chahoud et al., p. 2560.

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