The relative importance of proliferation and cell death in breast cancer growth and response to tamoxifen

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1545-1553

  Cameron, D A ^a,b   Ritchie, A A ^a   Miller, W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Breast cancer; Gompertz; Tamoxifen; Xenograft

Indexed keywords

ANTIESTROGEN; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MITOSIS RATE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MITOSIS; MITOTIC INDEX; TAMOXIFEN; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034885818     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8049(01)00166-6     Document Type: Article

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