News tagged with mismatch repair

New bowel cancer evidence supports calls for routine DNA damage repair test

Bowel cancer patients whose tumours contain defects in specific DNA repair systems are much less likely to experience tumour recurrence post surgery, published results from a major clinical study have demonstrated. Scientists ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Glitches in DNA repair genes predict prognosis in pancreatic cancer

Variations in mismatch repair genes can help predict treatment response and prognosis in patients with pancreatic cancer, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center presented today in ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0