An official website of the United States government
Home
Name
1p19q co-deletion
This definition applies to
All SEER websites where this term appears
Definition
1p19q codeletion stands for the combined loss of the short arm chromosome 1 (i.e. 1p) and the long arm of chromosome 19 (i.e. 19q) and is recognized as a genetic marker predictive of therapeutic response to both chemotherapy and combined chemoradiotherapy and overall longer survival in patients with diffuse gliomas, especially those with oligodendroglial components
Resource
Alternate Names
None
Abstractor Notes
None
Histology
None
Primary Sites
None
