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TP53 mutation at early stage of colorectal cancer progression from two types of laterally spreading tumors.
Cancer science - 1 Jun 2016
Sakai Eiji, Fukuyo Masaki, Matsusaka Keisuke, Ohata Ken, Doi Noriteru, Takane Kiyoko, Matsuhashi Nobuyuki, Fukushima Junichi, Nakajima Atsushi, Kaneda Atsushi
Abstract excerpt
Although most sporadic colorectal cancers (CRC) are thought to develop from protruded adenomas through the adenoma-carcinoma sequence, some CRC develop through flat lesions, so-called laterally spreading tumors (LST). We previously analyzed epigenetic aberrations in LST and found that LST are clearly classified into two molecular subtypes: intermediate-methylation with KRAS mutation and low-methylation with...
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