Christine Desmedt, Debora Fumagalli, Elisabetta Pietri, Gabriele Zoppoli, David Brown, Serena Nik-Zainal, Gunes Gundem, Françoise Rothé, Samira Majjaj, Anna Garuti, Enrico Carminati, Sherene Loi, Thomas Van Brussel, Bram Boeckx, Marion Maetens, Laura Mudie, Delphine Vincent, Naima Kheddoumi, Luigi Serra, Ilaria Massa, Alberto Ballestrero, Dino Amadori, Roberto Salgado, Alexandre de Wind, Diether Lambrechts, Martine Piccart, Denis Larsimont, Peter J Campbell, Christos Sotiriou
Multifocal breast cancer (MFBC), defined as multiple synchronous unilateral lesions of invasive breast cancer, is relatively frequent and has been associated with more aggressive features than unifocal cancer. Here, we aimed to investigate the genomic heterogeneity between MFBC lesions sharing similar histopathological parameters. Characterization of different lesions from 36 patients with ductal MFBC involved the identification of non-silent coding mutations in 360 protein-coding genes (171 tumour and 36 matched normal samples)...
August 2015: Journal of Pathology