Colon cancer: It's CINor CIMP

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 14, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 5939-5940

  Issa, Jean Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; CETUXIMAB; FLUOROURACIL; MOLECULAR MARKER; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; NOTE; PHARMACOGENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLON TUMOR; DISEASE COURSE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; METASTASIS; METHYLATION;

CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CPG ISLANDS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; METHYLATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PHENOTYPE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 58149147370     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-1596     Document Type: Note

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