Innovations & Thérapeutiques en Oncologie
MENUColorectal cancer: from molecular to clinical consensus? Volume 5, issue 1, January-February 2019
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- Key words: colon cancer, transcriptomic classification, targeted therapy, CMS
- DOI : 10.1684/ito.2019.0147
- Page(s) : 35-8
- Published in: 2019
Colon cancers are a very heterogeneous group of diseases. An international consortium has recently established a consensual transcriptomic classification allowing the categorization of tumors into four robust subtypes (“consensus molecular subtypes”, CMS), designated CMS1, CMS2, CMS3 and CMS4, associated with a prognostic value. Depending on the molecular classification, different treatments may be proposed, such as immunotherapy for MSI tumors belonging to the CMS1 group and anti-EGFR antibodies for the RAS wild-type tumors from CMS2 group. However, the identification of potential therapeutic targets is still needed for RAS-mutated tumors (CMS3) and the poor predictive group CMS4. The CMS classification is a tool of choice for the stratification of colon cancers and the identification of homogeneous subtypes with prognostic and sometimes predictive value of therapeutic efficacy.
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