Oestrogen receptor β: What it means for patients with breast cancer

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 174-181

  Speirs, Valerie ^a   Carder, Pauline J ^a   Lane, Sally ^a   Dodwell, David ^b   Lansdown, Mark R J ^b   Hanby, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; TAMOXIFEN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 1342330354     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(04)01413-5     Document Type: Review

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