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Microsatellite Instability in Colorectal Cancer

C. Richard Boland, +1 more
- 01 May 2010 - 
- Vol. 138, Iss: 6, pp 2073-2087
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Colorectal tumors with MSI have distinctive features, including a tendency to arise in the proximal colon, lymphocytic infiltrate, and a poorly differentiated, mucinous or signet ring appearance, and do not have the same response to chemotherapeutics.
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This article is published in Gastroenterology.The article was published on 2010-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1789 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Microsatellite instability & Lynch syndrome.

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Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer

Ludmil B. Alexandrov, +84 more
- 22 Aug 2013 - 
TL;DR: It is shown that hypermutation localized to small genomic regions, ‘kataegis’, is found in many cancer types, and this results reveal the diversity of mutational processes underlying the development of cancer.
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Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas

TL;DR: This work charted the detailed landscape of pathway alterations in 33 cancer types, stratified into 64 subtypes, and identified patterns of co-occurrence and mutual exclusivity.
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Approaches to treat immune hot, altered and cold tumours with combination immunotherapies

TL;DR: A panel of therapeutic strategies to use, combine and develop to treat hot, altered and cold tumours is provided and the impact of combination therapy on the immune response to convert an immune cold into a hot tumour will be discussed.
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The hallmarks of cancer.

TL;DR: This work has been supported by the Department of the Army and the National Institutes of Health, and the author acknowledges the support and encouragement of the National Cancer Institute.
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A genetic model for colorectal tumorigenesis

TL;DR: A model for the genetic basis of colorectal neoplasia that includes the following salient features is presented, which may be applicable to other common epithelial neoplasms, in which tumors of varying stage are more difficult to study.
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Microsatellite instability in cancer of the proximal colon

TL;DR: Colorectal tumor DNA was examined for somatic instability at (CA)n repeats on human chromosomes 5q, 15q, 17p, and 18q, and this instability was significantly correlated with the tumor's location in the proximal colon and with increased patient survival and loss of heterozygosity.
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