Stool DNA-based colorectal cancer detection: Finding the needle in the Haystack

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 798-799

  Atkin, Wendy ^a   Martin, John P ^a  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; DNA; PROTEIN P53; TUMOR MARKER;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SCREENING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIGESTION; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EDITORIAL; EXON; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MARKER GENE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MORBIDITY; ONCOGENE K RAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0035815899     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/93.11.798     Document Type: Editorial

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