Abstract: Introduction. High incidence and mortality rates of colorectal cancer indicate an urgent need for the use of new highly specific diagnostic and prognostic molecular markers. In this aspect, cancer testis antigens (CTA s) are of particular interest.The aim of the study was to analyze the relationship between the transcriptional activity of CTA s and survival in colorectal cancer patients with metastases (T1–4N1–2M1–2) and without metastases (T1–3N0M0).Results. The relative expression of 16 genetic loci (MAGE-A1, MAGE-A2, MAGE-A3, MAGE-A4...
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Oncology
Internal medicine
Cancer research