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ERCC1 and Clinical Resistance to Platinum-Based Therapy
1 Sept 2005
Abstract excerpt
Praz and colleagues report in this issue on the relationship between the occurrence of a polymorphism of ERCC1 in tumor tissues of patients with colorectal cancer and the rate of disease response to the combination of oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil (1). This polymorphism is associated with reduced translation of the gene, and presumably, reduced DNA repair capability. Their report suggests that the ability of...
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