Importance of a new tumor marker TRA-1-60 in the follow-up of patients with clinical stage I nonseminomatous testicular germ cell tumors

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 321-327

  Gels, Mariël E ^a   Marrink, Jan ^a   Visser, Petra ^a   Sleijfer, Dirk Th ^a   Droste, Jos H J ^a   Hoekstra, Harald J ^a   Andrews, Peter W ^b   Koops, Heimen Schraffordt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AFP; hCG; Nonseminomatous germ cell tumors; Testis cancer; TRA 1 60; Tumor marker

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PROTEOGLYCAN; TRA 1 60 ANTIGEN, HUMAN; TRA-1-60 ANTIGEN, HUMAN; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CANCER STAGING; GERM CELL TUMOR; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SURVIVAL; TESTIS TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GERMINOMA; GLYCOPROTEINS; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORCHIECTOMY; PROTEOGLYCANS; REFERENCE VALUES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031159055     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02303582     Document Type: Article

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