Role of the Dependence Receptor DCC in Colorectal Cancer Pathogenesis

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More than a decade ago, the DCC (deleted in colorectal cancer) gene was proposed as a putative tumor suppressor gene. Data supporting this proposal included observations that one DCC allele was deleted in roughly 70% of colorectal cancers, some cancers had somatic mutations of the DCC gene, and DCC expression was often reduced or absent in colorectal cancer tissues and cell lines. Despite subsequent studies which...

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