Pilot studies on the p53 gene in nipple aspirate fluid from patients with breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 139-143

  Phillips, Hamish A ^a,b   Howard, Grahame C W ^a,b   Miller, William R ^b  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Mutation; Nipple aspirate fluid; P53

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISCHARGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NIPPLE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADULT; BODY FLUIDS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENES, P53; HUMANS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NIPPLES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033921680     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006487315587     Document Type: Article

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