Endometrial Cancer Glossary
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Mismatch Repair Deficiency (dMMR) – A mutation that can be found in endometrial cancer that indicates a cell may have problems when creating copies of DNA in new cells.10
Microsatellite Instability (MSI) – A change that occurs in certain cells, like cancer cells, where the number of repeated pieces of DNA in a short, repeated sequence (called a microsatellite) is different from what it was when the microsatellite was inherited.11