Translational study
cancer, tumor, tumors
CANCER, TUMOR, TUMORS, PATHOGENESIS
Fifty of 73 treated patients (68.5%) had available archived formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor samples and consented to participate in an optional translational study. In order to characterize patients’ tumors, a next generation sequencing (NGS) custom gene panel was performed, targeting 151 genes involved in cancer pathogenesis and DNA-repair (see Supplemental 