1. Are Circulating miRNAs Predictive of Response to Therapy?
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Lava K. Kannappa
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Oncology ,Circulating mirnas ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Response to therapy ,Colorectal cancer ,business.industry ,Cell ,Early detection ,Cancer ,medicine.disease ,Circulating MicroRNA ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Internal medicine ,microRNA ,medicine ,business - Abstract
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third commonest cancer with nearly 1.4 million new cases identified throughout the world in 2012. There is a pressing need for a new non-invasive blood-based test to improve early detection and monitoring of CRC. MiRNAs are small non-coding RNAs involved in fundamental cell processes such as proliferation, survival and death. Studies have identified miRNAs in plasma of cancer patients in a stable form. This study aimed to evaluate whether circulating microRNAs are predictive of response to therapy.
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- 2019
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