Detection of blood-borne cells in colorectal cancer patients by nested reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction for carcinoembryonic antigen messenger RNA: Longitudinal analyses and demonstration of its potential importance as an adjunct to multiple serum markers

Cancer Research

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 2523-2532

  Guadagni, Fiorella ^a   Kantor, Judith ^b   Aloe, Simona ^a   Carone, Maria Daniela ^a   Spila, Antonella ^a   D'Alessandro, Roberta ^a   Abbolito, Rosaria ^a   Cosimelli, Maurizio ^a   Graziano, Franco ^a   Carboni, Fabio ^a   Carlini, Sandro ^a   Perri, Pasquale ^a   Sciarretta, Francesco ^a   Greiner, John W ^b   Kashmiri, Syed V S ^b   Steinberg, Seth M ^b   Roselli, Mario ^c   Schlom, Jeffrey ^b  

^a REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, TUMOR-ASSOCIATED, CARBOHYDRATE; CA-19-9 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035866757     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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