Molecular subtyping of colorectal cancer: Time to explore both intertumoral and intratumoral heterogeneity to evaluate patient outcome

Gastroenterology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 10-13

  Fearon, Eric R ^a,b   Carethers, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA METHYLATION; EDITORIAL; EPIGENETICS; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MISSENSE MUTATION; ONCOGENE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOMATIC MUTATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON TUMOR; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CPG ISLAND; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY;

B RAF KINASE; BRAF PROTEIN, HUMAN; KRAS PROTEIN, HUMAN; ONCOPROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; RAS PROTEINS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84922879208     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: 15280012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2014.11.024     Document Type: Editorial

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