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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1998 90(24):1858-1859; doi:10.1093/jnci/90.24.1858
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Quest for New and Better Colon Cancer Treatments Picks Up Steam

Investigators from all parts of the country met in San Diego last month to share creative attempts at exploiting the windfall discoveries of cancer-related genes and their biological pathways to advance the cause of colon cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Beginning with the premise that little progress has been made in the last 40 years in the treatment of metastatic colon cancer, the meeting's organizer, Lee M. Ellis, M.D., a surgeon and cancer biologist from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, said, "I was hearing about all the tremendous advances in our understanding of basic mechanisms of cancer progression and metastasis, but was frustrated with the fact that few, if any, of these advances were making any impact in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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