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PATHOLOGE
Volume 35, Issue 6, Pages 565-573Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00292-014-1918-y
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Personalized medicine; High throughput technology; Molecular individualization; Non-small cell lung cancer; Small cell lung cancer
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Lung cancer is the most frequent cause of cancer-related death in Germany in men and women alike. While in the last decades a classification of epithelial lung tumors into non-small cell and small cell lung cancer was clearly sufficient from the therapeutic viewpoint, the dawn of the era of personalized medicine together with tremendous developments in the field of high throughput technologies have led to a molecular individualization of these tumors and, even more important, to a molecularly defined individualization of tumor therapy. This development resulted in the definition of a wide array of molecularly divergent tumor families. In this article we will give an overview on relevant molecular alterations in non-small cell lung cancers, comprising adenocarcinomas, squamous cell carcinomas and large cell carcinomas and also small cell carcinomas and carcinoids. Besides some similarities data gathered in the last few years specifically highlighted the immense diversity of molecular alterations that might underlie tumorigenesis of lung neoplasms. The knowledge on how to detect these alterations is of utmost importance in pathology, as treatment decisions are increasingly based on their presence or absence, putting molecular pathology in the central focus of the novel era of personalized medicine in oncology.
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