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Putative Multifunctional Signature of Lung Metastases in Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma
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Putative Multifunctional Signature of Lung Metastases in Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma

Sergey Malchenko, Elisabeth A Seftor, Yuri Nikolsky, Susan L Hasegawa, Sean Kuo, Jeff W Stevens, Stas Poyarkov, Tatiana Nikolskaya, Tamara Kucaba, Min Wang, …
Sarcoma, Vol.2012, 820254
2012
DOI: 10.1155/2012/820254
PMCID: PMC3289931
PMID: 22448124
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https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/820254View
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Abstract

Chondrosarcomas are among the most malignant skeletal tumors. Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma is a highly aggressive subtype of chondrosarcoma, with lung metastases developing within a few months of diagnosis in 90% of patients. In this paper we performed comparative analyses of the transcriptomes of five individual metastatic lung lesions that were surgically resected from a patient with dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma. We document for the first time a high heterogeneity of gene expression profiles among the individual lung metastases. Moreover, we reveal a signature of “multifunctional” genes that are expressed in all metastatic lung lesions. Also, for the first time, we document the occurrence of massive macrophage infiltration in dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma lung metastases.

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