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Table 1 Summary of formalin-fixed samples

From: Sequence artefacts in a prospective series of formalin-fixed tumours tested for mutations in hotspot regions by massively parallel sequencing

Tumour type

Number of cases

Percentage

Breast

81

16.6%

Head and neck

80

16.4%

Prostate

79

16.2%

Colorectal

52

10.7%

Lung

47

9.6%

Other*

42

8.6%

Cervical

25

5.1%

Bone and soft tissue

22

4.5%

Oesophagogastric

15

3.1%

Renal

14

2.9%

Central nervous system

12

2.5%

Melanoma

11

2.3%

Cancer of unknown primary

8

1.6%

  1. *Represents other cancer types with smaller numbers including pancreatic, ovarian, thyroid, testicular, bladder, hepatic, endometrial, biliary and anal cancers.
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BMC Medical Genomics

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