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Colon cancer at the molecular level--usefulness of epithelial-mesenchymal transition analysis.
Revista medico-chirurgicala a Societatii de Medici si Naturalisti din Iasi - 1 Jan 2000
Todosi Ana-Maria, Gavrilescu Mihaela-Mădălina, Aniţei Gabriela-Maria, Filip B, Scripcariu V
Abstract excerpt
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third form of cancer in both men and women. In Romania, the incidence of CRC in 2000 is 17.74 %ooo, in 2002 becoming the second cause of death. We reviewed a series of studies that are related to colon cancer and studied the epithelial-mesenchymal transition at the front of tumor invasion (EMT). Cellular phenotypic changes characteristic of EMT can be induced by the absence of...
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