Telomerase and telomere length in the development and progression of premalignant lesions to colorectal cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1931-1941

  Engelhardt, Monika ^a,b   Drullinsky, Pamela ^a   Guillem, Jose ^a   Moore, Malcolm A S ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL; TELOMERE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLITIS; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030706072     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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