Genetic and epigenetic alterations in colon cancer.

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Colorectal cancer affected approximately 135,000 people in the United States in 2001, resulting in 57,000 deaths. Colorectal cancer develops as the result of the progressive accumulation of genetic and epigenetic alterations that lead to the transformation of normal colonic epithelium to colon adenocarcinoma. The loss of genomic stability is a key molecular and pathophysiologic step in this process and serves to...

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