BRCA1 expression levels predict distant metastasis of sporadic breast cancers

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 258-262

  Seery, Liam T ^a,c   Knowlden, Janice M ^a   Gee, Julia M W ^a   Robertson, John F R ^b   Kenny, Francis S ^b   Ellis, Ian O ^b   Nicholson, Robert I ^a  

^a Tenovus Inst Cancer Res   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; KI 67 ANTIGEN; RNA;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS;

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0033023125     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19990621)84:3<258::AID-IJC10>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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