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Molecular biology of colon polyps and colon cancer.
Seminars in surgical oncology - 1 Jan 2000
Allen J I
Abstract excerpt
From a histologic and endoscopic standpoint, colon and rectal cancer (CRC) begins as a small neoplastic polyp which progressively enlarges and transforms through a dysplasia stage into invasive cancer. Recently, molecular abnormalities underlying the adenomacarcinoma progression have been defined. The adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene and mismatch repair genes are found to be dysfunctional early in the...
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