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Genomic heterogeneity in primary colorectal carcinomas and their metastases: born bad or brought up a villain?
Human pathology - 1 Apr 2018
Hühns Maja, Krohn Saskia, Murua Escobar Hugo, Prall Friedrich
Abstract excerpt
Progression of solid cancers, colorectal carcinomas among them, from their primaries to metastatic lesions traditionally is thought to proceed by a stepwise acquisition of and selection for genomic aberrations. To test if patterns of genomic aberrations would be consistent with this model, we studied 10 colorectal carcinoma primary-metastasis pairs, 9 with 1 liver metastasis each and 1 with 2 metastases....
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