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| Molecular biomarkers of colorectal cancer: prognostic and predictive tools for clinical practice |
| Wei-qin Jiang, Fang-fang Fu, Yang-xia Li, Wei-bin Wang, Hao-hao Wang, Hai-ping Jiang, Li-song Teng |
| Cancer Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310003, China; Institute of Infectious Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310003, China |
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Abstract Colorectal cancer remains one of the most common types of cancer and leading causes of cancer death worldwide. Although we have made steady progress in chemotherapy and targeted therapy, evidence suggests that the majority of patients undergoing drug therapy experience severe, debilitating, and even lethal adverse drug events which considerably outweigh the benefits. The identification of suitable biomarkers will allow clinicians to deliver the most appropriate drugs to specific patients and spare them ineffective and expensive treatments. Prognostic and predictive biomarkers have been the subjects of many published papers, but few have been widely incorporated into clinical practice. Here, we want to review recent biomarker data related to colorectal cancer, which may have been ready for clinical use.
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Received: 04 November 2011
Published: 04 September 2012
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