Additional cytogenetic abnormalities were investigated by further FISH experiments, including the presence of trisomy 18 as a clonal abnormality and the discovery of one chromosome 8 being an i(8q), which indicates a duplication of the oncogene MYC. A homozygous deletion of 9p21 containing the tumour‐suppressor genes CDKN2A and CDKN2B was also revealed by FISH. This evidence concerns the gene CDKN2A and neoplasm.