Abnormal α-catenin expression in invasive breast cancer correlates with poor patient survival

Histopathology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 536-546

  Nakopoulou, L ^a   Gakiopoulou Givalou, H ^a   Karayiannakis, A J ^a   Giannopoulou, I ^a   Keramopoulos, A ^a   Davaris, P ^b   Pignatelli, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catenins ( , , , p120); E cadherin; Invasive breast cancer

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CATENIN; BETA CATENIN; CATENIN; PROTEIN P120; UVOMORULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONCOGENE C ERB; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA CATENIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CADHERINS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036278085     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2559.2002.01392.x     Document Type: Article

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