Colorectal cancer

A subgroup of patients with advanced colorectal cancer have their metastases confined to the liver. These patients can be cured by surgery, although some experience relapse after the surgery has been performed.

We perform genetic analyses in different liver metastases from the same patients to evaluate the heterogeneity between them and to identify genetic alterations that can predict the outcome for patients after surgical removal of metastases from the liver.

Key publications:

• Sveen et al. PLoS Genetics, 2016
• Løes et al. International J. Cancer, 2016

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