Maria F Becerra, Ed Reznik, Almedina Redzematovic, Daniel M Tennenbaum, Mahyar Kashan, Mazyar Ghanaat, Jozefina Casuscelli, Brandon Manley, Philip Jonsson, Renzo G DiNatale, Kyle A Blum, Jeremy C Durack, Stephen B Solomon, Maria E Arcila, Caitlin Bourque, Nick Socci, Maria I Carlo, Chung-Han Lee, Martin H Voss, Darren R Feldman, Robert J Motzer, Jonathan A Coleman, Paul Russo, Emily H Cheng, A Ari Hakimi, James J Hsieh
BACKGROUND: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) studies of matched pairs of primary and metastatic tumors in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) have been limited to small cohorts. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the discordance in somatic mutations between matched primary and metastatic RCC tumors. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Primary tumor (P), metastasis (M), and germline DNA from 60 patients with RCC was subjected to NGS with a targeted exon capture-based assay of 341 cancer-associated genes...
October 20, 2017: European Urology Focus