Prognostic relevance of an epigenetic biomarker panel in sentinel lymph nodes from colon cancer patients.

Guro Elisabeth LindMarianne GuribyTerje AhlquistIsrar HussainMarine JeanmouginKjetil SøreideHartwig KørnerRagnhild A LotheOddmund Nordgård

Published in: Clinical epigenetics (2017)

Colon cancer patients with high sentinel lymph node methylation of the analyzed epigenetic biomarker panel had an inferior prognosis, although not significant in multivariate analyses. Occult metastases in TNM stage II patients that experienced relapse were not detected.

Keyphrases

lymph node
end stage renal disease
sentinel lymph node
ejection fraction
dna methylation
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
gene expression
prognostic factors
early stage
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
squamous cell carcinoma