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Loss of heterozygosity and microsatellite instability as predictive markers for neoadjuvant treatment in gastric carcinoma.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Dec 2000
Grundei T, Vogelsang H, Ott K, Mueller J, Scholz M, Becker K, Fink U, Siewert J R, Höfler H, Keller G
Abstract excerpt
We analyzed a group of gastric carcinomas treated with a cisplatin-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimen for microsatellite instability (MSI) and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) to determine whether there is any relation between microsatellite alterations and therapy response. Pretherapeutic endoscopic biopsies of 37 patients were studied at 11 microsatellite loci. Thirteen (35%) had a complete or partial clinical...
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