Potential clinical utility of serum HER-2/neu oncoprotein concentrations in patients with breast cancer

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1579-1598

  Carney, Walter P ^a,b   Neumann, Rainer ^c,d   Lipton, Allan ^e   Leitzel, Kim ^e   Ali, Suhail ^e,f   Price, Christopher P ^g,h  

^a Oncogene Science   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d BAYER AG   (Germany)

^e PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g Bayer HealthCare   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; DROLOXIFENE; ETOPOSIDE; FADROZOLE; FLUOROURACIL; HORMONE; LETROZOLE; MEGESTROL; METHOTREXATE; MITOXANTRONE; ONCOPROTEIN; PACLITAXEL; TAMOXIFEN; TRASTUZUMAB;

BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ONCOGENE NEU; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT MONITORING; PEER REVIEW; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0141615794     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/49.10.1579     Document Type: Review

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