What is a 'cancer gene'? How genetic mutations lead to cancer

An estimated 170,000 Australians were diagnosed with cancer in 2025. Many people know the causes of cancer are partly genetic. But how do your genes, which contribute so much of what makes you you, ...
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Mutations in NRAS codon 61, KRAS codon 146, and BRAF V600E as prognostic factors in patients who received anti-EGFR antibody for metastatic colorectal cancer.

Comorbidity and other predictors of survival in veterans with colorectal cancer (CRC). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text ...
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Codon-specific KRAS mutations predict overall survival benefit of trifluridine/tipiracil in metastatic colorectal cancer.

RAS co-mutation and early onset disease represent an aggressive phenotype of atypical (non-V600) BRAF mutant metastatic colorectal cancer. Biweekly mXELIRI versus FOLFIRI in combination with ...
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Silent Genetic Mutations Are Not as Quiet as we Thought

Genes hold the recipe for proteins, which are made of amino acids. DNA only has four letters, or nucleotides, and each sequence of three nucleotide bases, or codon, encodes for one amino acid. There ...