An evaluation of CA125 levels in 291 normal postmenopausal and 20 endometrial adenocarcinoma-bearing women before and after surgery

Cancer Letters

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-72

  Takami, Masashi ^a   Sakamoto, Hideki ^a   Ohtani, Kaori ^a   Takami, Takeshi ^a   Satoh, Kazuo ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CA125; Endometrial adenocarcinoma; Postmenopausal women

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CA-125 ANTIGEN; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030783288     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(97)00332-7     Document Type: Article

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