Prognostic value of quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction in lymph node-negative esophageal cancer patients

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 4041-4048

  Godfrey, Tony E ^a   Raja, Siva ^a   Kelly, Lori A ^a   Luketich, James D ^a   Finkelstein, Sydney D ^a   Gooding, William E ^a  

^a PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCCULT CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGED; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035675963     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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