Case report: whole exome sequencing of primary cardiac angiosarcoma highlights potential for targeted therapies

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• 作者：Leah Zhrebker ; Irene Cherni ; Lara M. Gross ; Margaret M. Hinshelwood…
• 关键词：Cardiac angiosarcoma ; Whole exome sequencing ; Activating gene mutation ; Targeted therapies
• 刊名：BMC Cancer
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1690KB
• 刊物主题：Cancer Research; Oncology; Surgical Oncology; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Biomedicine, general; Medicine/Public Health, general;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2407
• 卷排序：17

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BackgroundPrimary cardiac angiosarcomas are rare, but they are the most aggressive type of primary cardiac neoplasms. When patients do present, it is with advanced pulmonary and/or cardiac symptoms. Therefore, many times the correct diagnosis is not made at the time of initial presentation. These patients have metastatic disease and the vast majority of these patients die within a few months after diagnosis. Currently the treatment choices are limited and there are no targeted therapies available.