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KRAS Mutant Status May Be Associated with Distant Recurrence in Early-stage Rectal Cancer.
Anticancer research - 1 Mar 2017
Sideris Michail, Moorhead Jane, Diaz-Cano Salvador, Haji Amyn, Papagrigoriadis Savvas
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BACKGROUND/AIM: Total mesorectal excision combined with neo-adjuvant chemoradiotherary (CRT) and adjuvant chemotherapy, has been the standard treatment of locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). Although TNM (Tumor, Node, Metastasis) classification for malignant Tumors is still the cornerstone in rectal cancer staging, there has been an effort to identify molecular biomarkers with additional prognostic or...
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