Prostate-specific antigen (PSA/hK3): A further player in the field of breast cancer diagnostics?

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 238-243

  Mannello, F ^a   Gazzanelli, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast; Breast cyst fluid; Cancer; Nipple aspirate fluid; Prostate specific antigen

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; SERINE PROTEINASE; TISSUE KALLIKREIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN FUNCTION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CELL SECRETION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LACTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INHALATION; MALE; NIPPLES; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034941839     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr302     Document Type: Review

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