Colon Cancer-Associated DNA Mutations: Marker Selection for the Detection of Proximal Colon Cancer

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 187-192

  Berger, Barry M ^b   Robison, Lauren ^b   Glickman, Jonathan ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Exact Sciences Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Apc; BAT 26; Cancer screening; Colon cancer; k ras; p53; Sigmoidoscopy; Stool DNA

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; APC GENE; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER TISSUE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA ISOLATION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE K RAS; ONCOGENE P53; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TISSUE SECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FECES; FEMALE; GENES, APC; GENES, P53; GENES, RAS; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 0344420252     PISSN: 10529551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019606-200312000-00002     Document Type: Article

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