Molecular Staging of Colorectal Cancer: K-Ras Mutation Analysis of Lymph Nodes Upstages Dukes B Patients

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 161-162

  Thebo, Jennifer S ^a   Senagore, Anthony J ^a   Reinhold, David S ^a   Stapleton, Susan R ^a  

^a Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; ONCOGENE K RAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034006937     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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