Assessing new prognostic biomarkers in resected colon cancer patients

• Main Author: Selven, Hallgeir
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT The Arctic University of Norway 2023
• Subjects: VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Clinical medical disciplines: 750::Oncology: 762; VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Klinisk medisinske fag: 750::Onkologi: 762; DOKTOR-003; Norway; TNM; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29356

Colon cancer is a common malignancy. We retrospectively established a biobank including 452 patients operated for colon cancer stage I-III in Northern Norway in the period 1998-2007. Tissue microarrays (TMAs) containing tumor tissue from these patients were constructed, and subsequently biomarker ex...