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A Case of Microsatellite Instability-High Colon Cancer in a Young Woman With Familial Adenomatous Polyposis.
Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN - 1 Dec 2021
Blum Steven M, Jeck William R, Kipnis Lindsay, Bleday Ronald, Nowak Jonathan A, Yurgelun Matthew B
Abstract excerpt
Two major molecular pathways of colorectal carcinogenesis, chromosomal instability (CIN) and microsatellite instability (MSI), are considered to be mutually exclusive. Distinguishing CIN from MSI-high tumors has considerable therapeutic implications, because patients with MSI-high tumors can derive considerable benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitors, and tumors that evolved through the CIN pathway do not...
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