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Molecular predictors of survival after adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer.
The New England journal of medicine - 19 Apr 2001
Watanabe T, Wu T T, Catalano P J, Ueki T, Satriano R, Haller D G, Benson A B, Hamilton S R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Adjuvant chemotherapy improves survival among patients with stage III colon cancer, but no reliable molecular predictors of outcome have been identified. METHODS: We evaluated loss of chromosomal material (also called loss of heterozygosity or allelic loss) from chromosomes 18q, 17p, and 8p; cellular levels of p53 and p21(WAF1/CIP1) proteins; and microsatellite instability as molecular markers. We...
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