BMC medicine
The clinical landscape of POLE-mutant colorectal cancer: a retrospective analysis of real-world outcome.
Ting Xu, Xuhui Zhang, Zhenghang Wang, Lin Shen, Xicheng Wang, Jian Li
Published: 202610.1186/s12916-025-04611-z
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Pathogenic mutations in the POLE gene disrupt its proofreading function during DNA replication, causing an accumulation of erroneous nucleotide incorporations. This defect leads to a significantly elevated tumor mutation burden (TMB) and…
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