A large multicenter study shows that lung adenocarcinomas have messenger RNA expression signatures that greatly add to the use of clinical data in predicting an individual's survival (pages 822–827).
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Xie, Y., Minna, J. Predicting the future for people with lung cancer. Nat Med 14, 812–813 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0808-812
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