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Tumor microsatellite instability and clinical outcome in young patients with colorectal cancer.
The New England journal of medicine - 13 Jan 2000
Gryfe R, Kim H, Hsieh E T, Aronson M D, Holowaty E J, Bull S B, Redston M, Gallinger S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer can arise through two distinct mutational pathways: microsatellite instability or chromosomal instability. We tested the hypothesis that colorectal cancers arising from the microsatellite-instability pathway have distinctive clinical attributes that affect clinical outcome. METHODS: We tested specimens of colorectal cancer from a population-based series of 607 patients (50 years of...
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