Serum tumour markers CEA, AFP, CA 15-3, TPS and neu in diagnosis of breast cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2B, 1997, Pages 1231-1234

  Eskelinen, Matti ^a,b   Kataja, Vesa ^a   Hämäläinen, Esa ^a   Kosma, Veli Matti ^a   Penttilä, Ilkka ^a   Alhava, Esko ^a  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

AFP; Breast cancer; CA 15 3; CEA; Diagnosis; Neu; TPS; Tumour markers

Indexed keywords

CA 15-3 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; ONCOPROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONCOGENE NEU; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDES; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030889321     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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