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ArticleOncotarget2017

Hierarchical clustering analysis identifies metastatic colorectal cancers patients with more aggressive phenotype.

Giuseppina Opinto, Nicola Silvestris, Matteo Centonze, Giusi Graziano, Rosamaria Pinto, Livia Fucci, Giovanni Simone, Anita Mangia

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Article in Oncotarget, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Giuseppina Opinto *Functional Biomorphology Laboratory, IRCCS-Istituto Tumori, Bari 70124, Italy.
Nicola Silvestris *Medical Oncology, IRCCS-Istituto Tumori, Bari 70124, Italy.
Matteo CentonzeFunctional Biomorphology Laboratory, IRCCS-Istituto Tumori, Bari 70124, Italy.
Giusi GrazianoScientific Direction, IRCCS-Istituto Tumori, Bari 70124, Italy.
Rosamaria PintoMolecular Genetics Laboratory, IRCCS-Istituto Tumori, Bari 70124, Italy.
Livia FucciPathology Department, IRCCS-Istituto Tumori, Bari 70124, Italy.
Giovanni SimonePathology Department, IRCCS-Istituto Tumori, Bari 70124, Italy.
Anita MangiaFunctional Biomorphology Laboratory, IRCCS-Istituto Tumori, Bari 70124, Italy.
Istituto Tumori Bari · ITIstituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A large percentage of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients presents metastasis at the time of diagnosis. In the last years, great efforts have been made in the treatment of these patients with the identification of different phenotypes playing a key role in the definition of new systemic therapies. Unsupervised hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA) was performed considering the clinicopathological characteristics of 51 mCRCs. Using immunohistochemistry on tissue microarrays, we assessed the expression of β-catenin, NHERF1, RASSF1A, TWIST1, HIF-1α proteins in tumors and paired liver metastases. We also analyzed RASSF1A methylation status on the samples of the same patients. HCA distinguished Group 1 and Group 2 characterized by different clinicopathological features. Group 1 was characterized by higher number of positive lymph nodes (

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biomarker expressionimmunohistochemistrymetastatic colorectal cancerTMAunsupervised hierarchical clustering analyses

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PMID29152120
PMCPMC5675672
OpenAlexW2757566061

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