Desmoplastic Pattern at the Tumor Front Defines Poor-prognosis Subtypes of Colorectal Cancer

Ueno, Hideki; Kanemitsu, Yukihide; Sekine, Shigeki; Ishiguro, Megumi; Ito, Eisaku; Hashiguchi, Yojiro; Kondo, Fukuo; Shimazaki, Hideyuki; Mochizuki, Satsuki; Kajiwara, Yoshiki; Shinto, Eiji; Yamamoto, Junji

doi:10.1097/pas.0000000000000946

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Desmoplastic Pattern at the Tumor Front Defines Poor-prognosis Subtypes of Colorectal Cancer

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Authors:

Hideki Ueno

Yukihide Kanemitsu

Shigeki Sekine

Abstract

Although recent findings of cancer biology research indicate that prognostic power arises from genes expressed by stromal cells rather than epithelial cells, desmoplastic reaction (DR) has not been completely examined as a prognostic marker for colorectal cancer. A pathologic review of 821 stage II ...

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