Serum Concentrations of Hepatocyte Growth Factor in Breast Cancer Patients

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 1031-1034

  Taniguchi, Tadaaki ^a   Toi, Masakazu ^a   Inada, Kazuo ^a   Imazawa, Takashi ^a   Yamamoto, Yutaka ^a   Tominaga, Takeshi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029131392     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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