Colorectal cancer patients with gene mutation show better response to cancer agent
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 00:10
in Health & Medicine
Even though the cancer-treatment agent cetuximab is not considered effective treatment for KRAS (a gene)-mutated metastatic colorectal tumors, new research indicates that patients with colorectal cancer not responding to chemotherapy and a certain variation of this gene who were treated with cetuximab had longer overall and progression-free survival than patients with other KRAS-mutations, according to a new study.