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Evidence of heterogeneity within colorectal liver metastases for allelic losses, mRNA level expression and in vitro response to chemotherapeutic agents.
International journal of cancer - 1 Sept 2010
Goasguen Nicolas, de Chaisemartin Cecile, Brouquet Antoine, Julié Catherine, Prevost Gregoire P, Laurent-Puig Pierre, Penna Christophe
Abstract excerpt
A goal of oncology is to predict chemosensitivity of tumors. This approach assumes that in a patient all tumor deposits are homogeneous. We have tested the heterogeneity between several samples of the same liver metastasis (LM; intrametastatic heterogeneity) or between multiple LM (intermetastatic heterogeneity) from colorectal cancer in a single patient. In 16 untreated patients, several fragments of LM and...
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