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Deficient Mismatch Repair and the Role of Immunotherapy in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer.
Current treatment options in oncology - 1 Aug 2016
Quiroga Dionisia, Lyerly H Kim, Morse Michael A
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OPINION STATEMENT: Division of colorectal cancers (CRCs) into molecular subsets yields important consequences for prognosis and therapeutic response. The microsatellite instability (MSI) immune subgroup, accounting for 15 % of early-stage and 3 % of metastatic CRCs, are a result of deficient cellular DNA mismatch repair (dMMR) mechanisms. dMMR CRCs are notable for greater survivability, yet lack of benefit from...
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