From Washington, D.C., at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research
Cancers on opposite ends of the colon are genetically distinct, researchers from Denmark and Finland have found. The standard practice of treating them as the same disease could explain why some people with colon cancer respond better to certain treatments than others do, says Sanne H.
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