 While the official, full name of this gene is "Deleted in Colorectal Carcinoma", it is almost universally called "Deleted in Colorectal Cancer".The protein product of "DCC" is a single transmembrane receptor also known as DCC, and it has the same interchangeable name.Since it was first discovered in a colorectal cancer study in 1990, "DCC" has been the focus of a significant amount of research.