A preventive potential of high calcium intake against colorectal cancer has been indicated for distal colon cancer, which is inversely associated with high-level CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP), high-level microsatellite instability (MSI), and BRAF and PIK3CA mutations.
The kinetics of ctDNA derived from each cancer type were monitored targeting BRAFV600R (melanoma) and KRAS G13D (colon cancer), specifically reflected the status of the patient's tumours.
Here we investigated whether combination of 5-FU and a MEK inhibitor had treatment sequence-dependent synergistic effects in KRAS or BRAF mutant colon cancer models.
The subgroup of colon cancer (CRC) characterized by mutation in the BRAF gene and high mutation rate in the genomic DNA sequence, known as the microsatellite instability (MSI) phenotype, accounts for roughly 10% of the patients and derives from polyps with a serrated morphology.
Moreover, tetrathiomolybdate treatment was also effective in reducing the clonogenic potential of colon cancerBRAF<sup>V600E</sup> cells resistant to BRAF pharmacological inhibition.
Immunohistochemistry with Anti-BRAFV600E (VE1) Mouse Monoclonal Antibody is a Sensitive Method for Detection of the BRAFV600E Mutation in Colon Cancer: Evaluation of 120 Cases with and without KRAS Mutation and Literature Review.
Our results highlight the need to evaluate the action of glucocorticoid on cancer progression in melanoma, thyroid and colon carcinoma in which B-RAF-V600E is a frequent oncogene, and cancers in which evasion from senescence has been shown.
In addition, FPLD3-associated PPARγ mutations consistently cause intra- and/or intermolecular defects; colon cancer-associated PPARγ mutations on the other hand may play a role in colon cancer onset and progression, but this is not due to their effects on the most well-studied functional characteristics of PPARγ.
Serine/threonine kinase B-Raf proto-oncogene (BRAF) mutant colon cancer has a poor prognosis and there is an absence of targeted treatments for this subtype.
Fisher's exact test showed that only two detected mutations at BRAF (V600E) and PIK3CA (E542K) were significantly positively correlated with right-sided colon cancer.
The results revealed a significant association between Her3 overexpression and tumor differentiation [OR = 2.38; 95% confidence interval (95% CI): 1.76-3.22; P < .001], TNM tumor stage (OR = 0.71; 95% CI: 0.53-0.96; P = .03), and position of colon cancer (OR = 1.71; 95% CI: 1.28-2.27; P < .001).
We report a MUTYH variant, p.C306W (c.918C>G), with a tryptophan residue in place of native cysteine, that ligates the [4Fe4S] cluster in a patient with colonic polyposis and family history of early age colon cancer.
A higher average number of mutations were observed in right versus left colorectal cancer (P < .01), with 13 of 14 BRAF mutations located in right colon cancer.
To determine the prognostic and predictive value of PTL according to BRAF, RAS, and MSI status in patients with stage III CC receiving adjuvant treatment with FOLFOX (folinic acid [leucovorin calcium], fluorouracil, and oxaliplatin) with or without cetuximab.
Although <i>BRAF</i>-directed treatments have yielded clinical benefit in a subset of tumor types, such as melanoma, thyroid cancer, and lung cancer, BRAF inhibition fails to confer a clinical benefit in colon cancer.
PTL does not seem to clearly influence disease-free survival (DFS) in localised colon cancer even though the opposite prognostic value of RS tumors on DFS depending on RAS/BRAF mutational status has been recently suggested in these patients.