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March 7, 1994 8:00 AM UTC

NMPS (Cambridge, Mass.) published data on six markers found in colon tumors obtained in surgery from 18 patients. As published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the proteins were present in all of the 18 tumors, and absent from 10 samples of normal colon.

The proteins control gene expression; those released from cancer cells are different from those shed by normal cells, the company said. ...