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Emerging pathways in colorectal-cancer development.
The Lancet. Oncology - 1 Feb 2002
Haydon Andrew M M, Jass Jeremy R
Abstract excerpt
The past decade has seen the emergence of new pathways in the development of colorectal cancer. There is now clear evidence that subsets of these tumours do not show chromosomal instability and do not follow the suppressor pathway. Instead, about 15% of colorectal cancers are characterised by microsatellite instability (MSI). This feature arises through defective DNA mismatch repair, which is related either to a...
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