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Clinicopathologic and molecular characteristics of synchronous colorectal cancers: heterogeneity of clinical outcome depending on microsatellite instability status of individual tumors.
Diseases of the colon and rectum - 1 Feb 2012
Bae Jeong M, Cho Nam-Yun, Kim Tae-You, Kang Gyeong H
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BACKGROUND: The contribution of chromosomal instability, microsatellite instability, and epigenetic instability to the development of synchronous colorectal carcinomas is controversial. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the relative roles of microsatellite instability and epigenetic instability in the development of synchronous colorectal cancers. DESIGN: This was a retrospective study of medical records...
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