Immunohistochemical detection of mismatch repair gene proteins as a useful tool for the identification of colorectal carcinoma with the mutator phenotype.

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There are two well-defined pathways for colorectal carcinogenesis, the suppressor and the mutator pathways. The latter is characteristic of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), but can also be found in a subset of sporadic colorectal cancer (SCC) possessing distinctive clinical and pathological features, namely early age of onset, location in the right colon, poor differentiation, and a predominant...

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