Annals of Oncology Advance Access originally published online on November 15, 2005
Annals of Oncology 2006 17(6):1026; doi:10.1093/annonc/mdj081
© 2005 European Society for Medical Oncology
letter to the editor |
Molecular stool testing for the early detection of colorectal cancer: swan song for p53?
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In the Editorial accompanying the manuscript by Russo et al. [1
], Hoff [2
] asserts that this study does not support routine testing for p53 mutations in colorectal cancer. Patients with p53 mutations showed a non-significant trend toward worse survival, but the
Department of Medical Oncology, Regina Elena Cancer Institute, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy
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