Fibre diffraction from a single hair can provide an early non-invasive test for colon cancer

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  James, Veronica J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Fibre diffraction of hair; Screening test

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFRACTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FIBER; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; SCREENING TEST;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; KERATINS; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0141707014     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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