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Dynamics of cancer cell subpopulations in primary and metastatic colorectal tumors.
Clinical & experimental metastasis - 1 Jun 2011
Goranova Teodora Evgenieva, Ohue Masayuki, Shimoharu Yutaro, Kato Kikuya
Abstract excerpt
Intratumor heterogeneity-heterogeneity of cancer cells within a single tumor-is considered one of the most problematic factors of treatment. Genetic heterogeneity, such as in somatic mutations and chromosome aberrations, is a common characteristic of human solid tumors and is probably the basis of biological heterogeneity. Using mutations in APC, TP53 and KRAS as markers to identify distinct colorectal cancer...
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