After our fecal metabonomic study of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients recently published in Oncotarget , we profiled urine metabolites from the same group of CRC patients, 40 age-matched healthy controls (HC), 18 esophageal cancers (EC), using proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in conjunction with a multivariate statistics technique. OPLS-DA revealed that each stage of CRC could be clearly distinguished from HC and EC based on their different metabolomic profiles. These altered urine metabolites of CRC patients from HC potentially involved in the disrupted common pathways, and the different metabolites in CRC compare to EC indicated the special of the CRC.
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