Consensus molecular subtypes and the evolution of precision medicine in colorectal cancer

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 79-92

  Dienstmann, Rodrigo ^a,b   Vermeulen, Louis ^c   Guinney, Justin ^b   Kopetz, Scott ^d   Tejpar, Sabine ^e   Tabernero, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b SAGE BIONETWORKS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSENSUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TUMOR GENE; TUMOR IMMUNITY; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EPIGENETICS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MUTATION;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONSENSUS; EPIGENOMICS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PRECISION MEDICINE; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85008339326     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc.2016.126     Document Type: Review

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