Genetic imbalances with impact on survival in colorectal cancer patients

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2559.2003.01720.x

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Genetic imbalances with impact on survival in colorectal cancer patients

26 Sept 2003

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AIMS: To investigate the prognostic significance of chromosomal alterations in colorectal cancer patients. Histopathological tumour classification is still considered to be the gold standard for the characterization of solid tumours. However, it is well known that such established parameters do not satisfactorily predict the clinical outcome in individual cases. Markers that reliably predict survival are needed....

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