Researchers find gene mutations lead to more aggressive colon cancer in African Americans

(University Hospitals Case Medical Center) Case Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers, a research collaboration which includes University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University, who last year identified new gene mutations unique to colon cancers in African Americans, have found that tumors with these mutations are highly aggressive and more likely to recur and metastasize. The study is published online and will be in the Dec. 2016 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

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