Careful histological confirmation and microdissection reveal telomerase activity in otherwise telomerase-negative breast cancers

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 435-440

  Carey, Lisa A ^a   Hedican, Catigan A ^a   Henderson, Gregory S ^a   Umbricht, Christopher B ^a   Dome, Jeffrey S ^a   Varon, Debora ^a   Sukumar, Saraswati ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; TELOMERASE;

EID: 0031887947     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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