Contrasting molecular pathology of colorectal carcinoma in Egyptian and Western patients

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1037-1046

  Soliman, A S ^a,b   Bondy, M L ^a   El Badawy, S A ^b   Mokhtar, N ^b   Eissa, S ^b   Bayoumy, S ^c   Seifeldin, I A ^c   Houlihan, P S ^a,d   Lukish, J R ^e   Watanabe, T ^d   Chan, A On On ^a   Zhu, D ^a   Amos, C I ^a   Levin, B ^a   Hamilton, S R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c TANTA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Egypt; Microsatellite instability; Schistosomiasis

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN P53;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; EGYPT; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHYLATION; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHILD; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA REPAIR; EGYPT; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

EID: 17944369235     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6691838     Document Type: Article

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