Hypoxia in human soft tissue sarcomas: Adverse impact on survival and no association with p53 mutations

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1070-1075

  Nordsmark, M ^a   Alsner, J ^a   Keller, J ^a   Nielsen, O S ^a   Jensen, O M ^a   Horsman, M R ^a   Overgaard, J ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Hypoxia; p53; Polarographic oxygen electrode; Predictive assay; Soft tissue sarcoma; Survival; Tumour oxygenation

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SURVIVAL TIME; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL HYPOXIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PROGNOSIS; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0035917618     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/bjoc.2001.1728     Document Type: Article

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