Colorectal cancer molecular biology moves into clinical practice

Gut

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 116-129

  Pritchard, Colin C ^a   Grady, William M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CETUXIMAB; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OXALIPLATIN; PANITUMUMAB; SORAFENIB; TUMOR MARKER;

CANCER GENETICS; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 78651241644     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2009.206250     Document Type: Review

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