TY - JOUR AR - IJCST-2020-1-103 TI - Is Microsatellite Instability Important in Response to Radiotherapy in Patients with Rectal Cancer? AU - Yasemin Benderli, Cihan JO - International Journal of Cancer Science and Therapy PY - 2020 DA - Fri 14, Aug 2020 SN - DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.31487/j.IJCST.2020.01.03 UR - https://www.sciencerepository.org/is-microsatellite-instability-important-in-response-to-radiotherapy_IJCST-2020-1-103 KW - Microsatellite instability, radiotherapy, rectal cancer AB - MSI is the indicator of a DNA repair error that may lead to mutation accumulation formed in the cell. Although there are conflicting studies in the literature, in many studies it has been revealed that MSI has predictive and prognostic effect on response to RT in rectal cancer.