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ArticleOncotarget2018

The prognostic efficacy of cell-free DNA hypermethylation in colorectal cancer.

Simon Ladefoged Rasmussen, Henrik Bygum Krarup, Kåre Gotschalck Sunesen, Martin Berg Johansen, Mogens Tornby Stender, Inge Søkilde Pedersen, Poul Henning Madsen, Ole Thorlacius-Ussing

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Article in Oncotarget, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Epigenetic Landscape of Liquid Biopsy in Colorectal Cancer.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
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Simon Ladefoged RasmussenDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
Henrik Bygum KrarupClinical Cancer Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
Kåre Gotschalck SunesenDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
Martin Berg JohansenUnit of Clinical Biostatistics, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
Mogens Tornby StenderDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
Inge Søkilde PedersenClinical Cancer Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
Poul Henning MadsenClinical Cancer Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
Ole Thorlacius-UssingDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epigenetic alterations in colorectal cancer (CRC) cause important differences in the underlying tumor biology and aggressiveness. DNA hypermethylation is central for the development of CRC but the prognostic impact remains elusive. We aimed to assess the association between cell-free hypermethylated DNA and stage and survival in colorectal cancer (CRC). We analyzed pre-treatment plasma samples from 193 patients with CRC. Thirty gene-promoter regions were analyzed using methylation specific PCR. We compared the median number (range) of hypermethylated promoter regions with CRC stage, and constructed a multivariable Cox-regression model adjusted for stage, to evaluate the added prognostic information. The median number of hypermethylated promoter regions was nine (0-28) in patients with distant metastasis compared to five (0-19) in patients without metastatic disease (p < 0.0001). The majority of the hypermethylated promoter regions inferred a poor prognosis. Cox-regression analysis adjusted for patient age, sex, pre-treatment CEA-levels, and disease stage, showed that

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colorectal cancerDNA hypermethylationprognosisstaging

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