Akt kinases in breast cancer and the results of adjuvant therapy

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Stål, Olle ^a   Pérez Tenorio, Gizeh ^a   Åkerberg, Linda ^a   Olsson, Birgit ^a   Nordenskjöld, Bo ^a   Skoog, Lambert ^b   Rutqvist, Lars Erik ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ErbB2; HER 2 neu; Protein kinase B; Radiotherapy; Tamoxifen; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMBUCIL; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; PROTEIN AKT1; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN KINASE B BETA; TAMOXIFEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AKT1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; AKT2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADICAL MASTECTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RISK REDUCTION; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PHOSPHORYLATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TAMOXIFEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038700565     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr569     Document Type: Article

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