Telomerase activity correlates with tumor aggressiveness and reflects therapy effect in breast cancer

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 8-12

  Moos, Axel ^a,b   Hepp, Hedwig H ^a   Kaul, Sepp ^a   Ahlert, Thorsten ^a   Basiert, Gunther ^a   Wallwiener, Diethelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; TELOMERASE;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; TELOMERASE;

EID: 0032548969     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19980220)79:1<8::AID-IJC2>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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