Further evidence for prognostic significance of epidermal growth factor receptor gene amplification in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 909-914

  Kitagawa, Yuko ^a   Ueda, Masakazu ^a   Ando, Nobutoshi ^a   Ozawa, Soji ^a   Shimizu, Nobuyoshi ^a   Kitajima, Masaki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; VINDESINE;

ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029974391     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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