Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Integrated molecular characterization reveals potential therapeutic strategies for pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma

  • Zhenlin Yang,
  • Jiachen Xu,
  • Lin Li,
  • Renda Li,
  • Yalong Wang,
  • Yanhua Tian,
  • Wei Guo,
  • Zhijie Wang,
  • Fengwei Tan,
  • Jianming Ying,
  • Yuchen Jiao,
  • Shugeng Gao,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Yibo Gao,
  • Jie He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18702-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma (PSC) is a rare subtype of lung cancer with poor prognosis. Here the authors performed multi-omics analysis of human samples to investigate the mutational landscape of PSC and show three subgroups of PSC with distinct biology, prognosis and potential therapeutic strategies.