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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
DISEASE(S): responder to preoperative radiotherapy
SUBMITTER: Toshiaki Watanabe
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-3493 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Watanabe Toshiaki T Komuro Yasuhiro Y Kiyomatsu Tomomichi T Kanazawa Takamitsu T Kazama Yoshihiro Y Tanaka Junichiro J Tanaka Toshiaki T Yamamoto Yoko Y Shirane Masatoshi M Muto Tetsuichiro T Nagawa Hirokazu H
Cancer research 20060401 7
Preoperative radiotherapy has been widely used to improve local control of disease and to improve survival in the treatment of rectal cancer. However, the response to radiotherapy differs among individual tumors. Our objective here was to identify a set of discriminating genes that can be used for characterization and prediction of response to radiotherapy in rectal cancer. Fifty-two rectal cancer patients who underwent preoperative radiotherapy were studied. Biopsy specimens were obtained from ...[more]