Epidermal growth factor in plasma and saliva of patients with active breast cancer and breast cancer patients in follow-up compared with healthy women

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 83-86

  Navarro, Miguel A ^a,c   Mesía, Ricard ^b   Díez Gibert, Orland ^a   Rueda, Antonio ^b   Ojeda, Belén ^b   Alonso, María C ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^c NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Carcinogenesis; Epidermal growth factor; Local recurrences; Saliva

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAMMARY GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SALIVA;

EID: 0031016464     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005755928831     Document Type: Article

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