Molecular biology of colorectal cancer and clinical consequences for colorectal cancer syndromes.

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Because of the accomplishments in biotechnical research in the past few decades our knowledge about the molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis has grown rapidly. Colorectal cancer has been one of the most intensively investigated tumor entities, and it seems to be well established that colorectal tumor growth is associated with an accumulation of acquired somatic mutational events in tumor suppressor genes and...

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