Apoptosis as an independent prognostic indicator in squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus

Pathology International

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 498-503

  Shibata, Hiroshi ^a   Matsubara, Osamu ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Esophagus; p53; Patient survival; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL COUNT; DNA, NEOPLASM; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0034880355     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1827.2001.01234.x     Document Type: Article

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