Background:Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer encompasses a group of malignancies affecting the digestive tract and related organs, including cancers of the colon, pancreas, stomach, liver, and esophagus.
Epigenetics involves genetic control by factors ... diseased tissue from patients with colorectal cancer had less DNA methylation than normal tissue from the same patients (Feinberg & Vogelstein ...
Methylation-based assays such as the ones Proudhon and Attard are working on have the potential to change cancer diagnostics. New epigenetic biomarkers can be used in personalized medicine ...