Association of gastric and intestinal phenotypic marker expression of gastric carcinomas with tumor thymidylate synthase expression and response to postoperative chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil

Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology

Volumn 129, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 683-690

  Tajima, Yusuke ^a   Shimoda, Tadakazu ^b   Nakanishi, Yukihiro ^c   Yokoyama, Noboru ^a   Tanaka, Takayuki ^a   Shimizu, Kouji ^a   Saito, Toyohiko ^a   Kawamura, Masatoshi ^a   Kusano, Mitsuo ^a   Kumagai, Kazuhide ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemosensitivity 5 fluorouracil; Gastric and intestinal marker; Gastric carcinoma; Thymidylate synthase

Indexed keywords

COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; FLUOROURACIL; MUCIN; MUCIN 2; MUCIN 6; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; GASTRECTOMY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 10744228917     PISSN: 01715216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00432-003-0476-0     Document Type: Article

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