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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 11.
Published in final edited form as: Gastroenterology. 2010 Jun;138(6):2073–2087.e3. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.12.064

Table 3.

Chemotherapy in Colorectal Cancer with Microsatellite Instability

First author Year Study design Adjuvant chemotherapy regimen No. of patients (MSI/MSS) Benefit of chemotherapy in patients with MSI
Elsaleh135 2000 Consecutive patients 5-FU 63/669 Yes
Ribic141 2003 Randomized controlled study 5-FU 95/475 No
Carethers94 2004 Consecutive patients 5-FU 36/168 No
de Vos tot Nederveen Cappel143 2004 Lynch syndrome patients 5-FU 28/0 No
Storojeva136 2005 Randomized controlled study 5-FU/mitomycin 21/139 No
Benatti142 2005 Consecutive patients 5-FU 256/1007 No
Popat51 2005 Pooled data from multiple studies 5-FU 1277/6365 No
Lanza137 2006 Consecutive patients 5-FU 75/288 No
Jover138 2006 Consecutive patients 5-FU 66/688 No
Kim126 2007 Prospective study 5-FU/leuocovorin 98/444 No
Des Guetz139 2009 Meta-analysis 454/2871 No
Bertagnolli140 2009 Randomized controlled study 5-FU/irinotecan/leucovorin 106/677 No

5-FU, 5-fluorouracil; MSS, microsatellite stable.