Experimentally derived metastasis gene expression profile predicts recurrence and death in patients with colon cancer. | Cooperative Human Tissue Network Western Division

Smith JJ, Deane NG, Wu F, Merchant NB, Zhang B, Jiang A, Lu P, Johnson JC, Schmidt C, Bailey CE, Eschrich S, Kis C, Levy S, Washington MK, Heslin MJ, Coffey RJ, Yeatman TJ, Shyr Y, Beauchamp RD. Experimentally derived metastasis gene expression profile predicts recurrence and death in patients with colon cancer. Gastroenterology. 2010 Mar;138(138). 958-68. PMID: 19914252 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC3388775 NIHMSID: NIHMS388171.

Abstract

Staging inadequately predicts metastatic risk in patients with colon cancer. We used a gene expression profile derived from invasive, murine colon cancer cells that were highly metastatic in an immunocompetent mouse model to identify patients with colon cancer at risk of recurrence.