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KRAS Status Predicts Response to Treatment for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
KRAS Status Predicts Response to MCC Treatment
F. Lowry
20080105
2008 Feb 5
Elsevier Global Medical News
KRAS Status Predicts Response to Treatment for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2008 Feb 5, F. Lowry
ORLANDO (EGMN) - KRAS tumor status has emerged as an important biomarker for the success or failure of therapies for metastatic colorectal cancer and should be assessed before starting treatment, researchers said at a meeting on gastrointestinal cancers sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Oncology."Clinicians should definitely start checking for KRAS status in their patients with advanced colorectal cancer. Such testing will become very easy to do in the next few months," Dr. Josep Tabernero,...