Effects of plaque brachytherapy and proton beam radiotherapy on prognostic testing: a comparison of uveal melanoma genotyped by microsatellite analysis.
Sophie ThorntonSarah E CouplandHeinrich HeimannRumana N HussainCarl GroenewaldAndrzej KacperekBertil DamatoAzzam TaktakAntonio EleuteriHelen KaliraiPublished in: The British journal of ophthalmology (2020)
This study revealed that successful genotyping of UM using MSA is possible, irrespective of irradiation status. Moreover, we found no evidence that biopsy prior to radiotherapy increases metastatic mortality.
Keyphrases
- locally advanced
- radiation therapy
- early stage
- radiation induced
- squamous cell carcinoma
- high dose
- small cell lung cancer
- rectal cancer
- coronary artery disease
- high throughput
- cardiovascular events
- genome wide
- risk factors
- single cell
- genetic diversity
- ultrasound guided
- type diabetes
- gene expression
- low dose
- cardiovascular disease
- dna methylation
- skin cancer