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The transition from primary colorectal cancer to isolated peritoneal malignancy is associated with a hypermutant, hypermethylated state

2020-02-25 oncology Title + abstract only
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Coloretcal Peritoneal metastases (CPM) develop in 15% of colorectal cancers. Cytoreductive surgery and heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CRS & HIPEC) is the current standard of care in selected patients with limited resectable CPM. Despite selection using known prognostic factors survival is varied and morbidity and mortality are relatively high. There is a need to improve patient selection and a paucity of research concerning the biology of isolated CPM. We aimed to determine the biology ass...

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