The study, conducted at the medical center and published in Cancer Research, offered a new approach to colon cancer treatments that would target multiple genes and pathways at once.
Scientists had previously thought that just 8-15 mutations would lead to colon cancer.
Read the UT Southwestern Medical Center release on genetic mutations for colon cancer.
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