PREDICTIVE MARKERS OF THE EFFICACY IN METASTATIC COLORECTAL TUMOR TREATED WITH CETUXIMAB - PHASE 2 STUDY

Primary objectives: Assessing in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer refractory to treatment with chemotherapy and Irinotecan 5FU the correlation between the response to treatment with Cetuximab in combination with chemotherapy based Irinotecan;search for mutations of K-RAS and odetermination of PTEN by immunohistochemistry;Gene amplification dell’EGFR determined by FISH;the intensity of expression dell’EGFR determined by immunohistochemistry test with DAKO and Zymed (monoclonal antibody clone 31G7)