Prognostic value of EGFR and TGF-α in early laryngeal cancer treated with radiotherapy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 884-888

  Wen, Qing Hua ^a   Miwa, Takaki ^a   Yoshizaki, Tbmokazu ^a   Nagayama, Ikuo ^a   Furukawa, Mitruru ^a   Nishijima, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

EID: 0029948340     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199607000-00019     Document Type: Article

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