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A National Cancer Institute Workshop on Microsatellite Instability for cancer detection and familial predisposition: development of international criteria for the determination of microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer.
Cancer research - 15 Nov 1998
Boland C R, Thibodeau S N, Hamilton S R, Sidransky D, Eshleman J R, Burt R W, Meltzer S J, Rodriguez-Bigas M A, Fodde R, Ranzani G N, Srivastava S
Abstract excerpt
In December 1997, the National Cancer Institute sponsored "The International Workshop on Microsatellite Instability and RER Phenotypes in Cancer Detection and Familial Predisposition," to review and unify the field. The following recommendations were endorsed at the workshop. (a) The form of geno...
Topics
- Colorectal Neoplasms
- Colorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary Nonpolyposis
- Forecasting
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Loss of Heterozygosity
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Prognosis
- United States