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Preface

Chapter 1 Gene signatures and soft tissue sarcomas: status of art and perspectives

Bruno Vincenzi, Anna Maria Frezza, Daniele Santini, and Giuseppe Tonini

Chapter 2 Heterogeneity of breast cancer: gene signatures and beyond

Gaia Schiavon, Marcel Smid, Gaorav P. Gupta, Stefania Redana, Daniele Santini, and John W.M. Martens

Chapter 3 Gene signatures in CRC and liver metastasis

Daniele Fanale, Lidia Corsini, Sergio Rizzo, and Antonio Russo

Chapter 4 Gene signatures in Gastrointestinal Stomal Tumors (GIST)

Piotr Rutkowski, Giuseppe Badalamenti, Laura La Paglia, Joanna Przybyl, and Maria Debiec-Rychter

Chapter 5 Pancreatic Cancer Genetics

Juan Iovanna, Ezequiel Luis Calvo, Jean Charles Dagorn, and Nelson Dusetti

Chapter 6 Diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic value of gene signatures in non-small-cell lung cancer

Rafael Rosell, Miquel Taron, Christian Diego Rolfo, Delvys Rodriguez-Abreu, and Jia Wei

Chapter 7 Gene signatures in Gastric Cancer

Laura Ottini, Mario Falchetti, and Gabriella Nesi

Chapter 8 Gene signatures in Colorectal Cancer

Alessandro Lugli and Inti Zlobec

Chapter 9 The role of epigenetics in cancer: from molecular function to high-throughput assays

Aleksandra Pekowska, Joaquin Zacarias-Cabeza, Jinsong Jia, Pierre Ferrier, and Salvatore Spicuglia

Chapter 10 Primary Epithelial Ovarian Neoplasms: New concepts concerning origin, pathogenesis and classification based on morphology, immunomarkers, molecular features and gene expression studies

Bernard Czernobilsky, Leonor Leider-Trejo, and Antonio Russo

Chapter 11 Thyroid carcinoma: molecular signature by histotype specific mutations and gene expression patterns

Umberto Malapelle, Claudio Bellevicine, Lajos Pustzai, and Giancarlo Troncone