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[Current status of the prognostic value of molecular markers in patients with colorectal cancer and the prediction of response to adjuvant therapy].
Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico - 1 Apr 2005
Fernández-Cebrián Jose M, Vorwald Kuborn Peter, Pardo de Lama Mar, Sanjuanbenito Dehesa Alfonso, Nevado Santos Manuel, Pacheco Martínez Pedro A, Fernández-Escudero Beatriz
Abstract excerpt
Colorectal cancer is one of the best studied of all malignant diseases in terms of genetics and/or molecular prognostic factors. These factors, and relationships with prognosis, may have important implications especially in the design of surgical and adjuvant chemo-radiotherapy options. However, the true prognostic significance of all known factors has yet to be realised. We have reviewed the literature with...
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