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Integrative marker analysis allows risk assessment for metastasis in stage II colon cancer.
Annals of surgery - 1 Nov 2012
Nitsche Ulrich, Rosenberg Robert, Balmert Alexander, Schuster Tibor, Slotta-Huspenina Julia, Herrmann Pia, Bader Franz G, Friess Helmut, Schlag Peter M, Stein Ulrike, Janssen Klaus-Peter
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OBJECTIVES: Individualized risk assessment in patients with UICC stage II colon cancer based on a panel of molecular genetic alterations. BACKGROUND: Risk assessment in patients with colon cancer and localized disease (UICC stage II) is not sufficiently reliable. Development of metachronous metastasis is assumed to be governed largely by individual tumor genetics. METHODS: Fresh frozen tissue from 232 patients...
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