Chemotherapeutic implications in microsatellite unstable colorectal cancer1
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Survival in microsatellite-unstable colorectal cancer.
To the Editors: We read with interest Malesci et al’s article in the recent issue of Clinical Cancer Research (1). They showed that microsatellite instability (MSI) was a significant stagedependent predictor of survival in patients with colorectal cancer. Malesci et al. introduced our previous results and also showed that patients with transforming growth factor-h RII– mutated MSI cancer had be...
متن کاملHigh thymidylate synthase expression in colorectal cancer with microsatellite instability: implications for chemotherapeutic strategies.
UNLABELLED Colon cancers displaying microsatellite instability (MSI) are clinically less aggressive. Based on in vitro studies and recent clinical data, cancers displaying MSI do not respond to 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). The reasons why MSI tumors are clinically less aggressive and do not respond to 5-FU-based therapies have not been fully elucidated. PURPOSE We investigated biomolecular markers ...
متن کاملBackground mutation frequency in microsatellite-unstable colorectal cancer.
Microsatellite instability (MSI) is observed in approximately 12% of colorectal cancers. Genes containing a mononucleotide microsatellite in the coding sequence are particularly prone to inactivation in MSI tumorigenesis, and much work has been conducted to identify genes with high repetitive tract mutation rates in these tumors. Much less attention has been paid to background mutation frequenc...
متن کاملMolecular genetics of microsatellite-unstable colorectal cancer for pathologists
BACKGROUND Microsatellite-unstable colorectal cancers (CRC) that are due to deficient DNA mismatch repair (dMMR) represent approximately 15% of all CRCs in the United States. These microsatellite-unstable CRCs represent a heterogenous group of diseases with distinct oncogenesis pathways. There are overlapping clinicopathologic features between some of these groups, but many important difference...
متن کاملGenome-wide differences between microsatellite stable and unstable colorectal tumors.
Genomic copy number changes are frequently found in cancers and they have been demonstrated to contribute to carcinogenesis; and it is widely accepted that tumors with microsatellite instability (MSI) are genetically stable and mostly diploid. In the present study we compared the copy number alterations and the gene-expression profiles of microsatellite stable (MSS) and MSI colorectal tumors. A...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cancer Biomarkers
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1875-8592,1574-0153
DOI: 10.3233/cbm-2006-21-206