Detection of telomerase activity in human prostate: A diagnostic marker for prostatic cancer?

British Journal of Urology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 263-268

  Scatks, D K ^a,b   Muir, G H ^a,b   Venitt, S ^a   Carmichael, P L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benign prostatic hyperplasia; Prostate cancer; Telomerase

Indexed keywords

MARKER; TELOMERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY CANCER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; ENZYME TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; TELOMERASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031397466     PISSN: 00071331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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