bcl-2 and apoptosis in lymph node positive breast carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1296-1302

  Berardo, Melora D ^a   Elledge, Richard M ^b   De Moor, Carl ^c   Clark, Gary M ^b   Osborne, C Kent ^b   Allred, D Craig ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bcl 2; Breast carcinoma; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032055936     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980401)82:7<1296::AID-CNCR12>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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