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https://www.selleckchem.com/pr....oducts/prt062607-p50
BACKGROUND Upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) may arise in the setting of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (Lynch syndrome [LS]) or sporadically. Variable frequencies of microsatellite instability (MSI) were found in UTUC. For advanced solid MSI tumors, targeted therapy with programmed death-ligand 1 inhibitors is available. Therefore, we aimed to determine the prevalence of mismatch repair (MMR) protein loss and MSI in UTUC using a tissue microarray approach and further molecular and correlation analysis. M