TY - JOUR AU - Sunpaweravong, Somkiat AU - Bunbanjerdsuk, Sacarin AU - Pongrujikorn, Tanjitti AU - Naktang, Chaiwat AU - Sunpaweravong, Patrapim AU - Nitiruangjaras, Anupong AU - Dechaphankul, Tanadech AU - Jinawath, Natini PY - 2019 DA - 2019/12/03 TI - Clonal relationship of synchronous head and neck cancer and esophageal cancer assessed by single nucleotide polymorphism-based loss of heterozygosity analysis JO - BMC Cancer SP - 1174 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - The prognoses of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) are poor, especially when both tumors occur at the same time. We examined the clonal relatedness of HNSCCs with synchronous ESCCs to confirm whether the second tumors were metastasis or separate second primary malignancies (SPMs) using loss of heterozygosity (LOH) analysis. SN - 1471-2407 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-6394-6 DO - 10.1186/s12885-019-6394-6 ID - Sunpaweravong2019 ER -