Estrogen receptor immunocytochemistry in paraffin embedded tissues with ER1D5 predicts breast cancer endocrine response more accurately than H222Spγ in frozen sections or cytosol-based ligand-binding assays

Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2514-2519

  Pertschuk, Louis P ^a,b,c   Feldman, Joseph G ^a   Kim, Yong Doo ^a,b   Braithwaite, Lorraine ^b   Schneider, Frank ^a   Braverman, Albert S ^a   Axiotis, Constantine ^a,b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Box 25 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Endocrine response; Estrogen receptor; Immunohistochemistry; Paraffin sections

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PARAFFIN; STREPTAVIDIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CYTOSOL; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; PARAFFIN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN;

EID: 0029950536     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960615)77:12<2514::AID-CNCR14>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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