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What is molecular oncology and is it worth doing in metastic colon treatment ?
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Gene mutations: Molecular oncology depends on defining oncogene changes in metastasis to determine which mutation has occurred and which of the drugs available or being developed can effectively treat the tumor. We have shown that the immunogenic TAA( includes colon) does not change from primary to metastasis ant the vaccine or monofclonal effectively targeting the primary will be the same for the met.
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