A divide-and-conquer strategy in tumor sampling enhances detection of intratumor heterogeneity in routine pathology: A modeling approach in clear cell renal cell carcinoma [version 1; referees: 2 approved]
Intratumor heterogeneity (ITH) is an inherent process in cancer development which follows for most of the cases a branched pattern of evolution, with different cell clones evolving independently in space and time across different areas of the same tumor. The determination of ITH (in both spatial and...
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F1000 Research Ltd
2016-03-01
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Online Access: | http://f1000research.com/articles/5-385/v1 |