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A very large villous adenoma with an adjacent cancer of the rectum: an informative case for testing the proposed molecular basis of colorectal tumorigenesis.
Japanese journal of clinical oncology - 1 Oct 1996
Kanaoka S, Hanai H, Kaneko E, Kino I, Baba S, Fujita M
Abstract excerpt
It is currently accepted that colorectal tumorigenesis results from accumulation of multiple mutations in certain genes. This concept prompted us to search for possible mutations in the APC, k-ras, and p53 genes in an advanced cancer coexisting with a large villous adenoma of the rectum in a 54-year-old patient with no family history of colorectal cancer. Genomic DNA extracted from multiple subregions of the...
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