Increase in the frequency of K-ras codon 12 point mutation in colorectal carcinoma in elderly males in Japan: The 1990s compared with the 1960s

Cancer Science

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 218-220

  Kinoshita, Hirokatsu ^a,d   Yanagisawa, Akio ^c   Watanabe, Toshiaki ^d   Nagawa, Hirokazu ^d   Oya, Masatoshi ^b   Kato, Yo ^a   Muto, Tetsuichiro ^b  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY CENTER   (Japan)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CODON; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GENDER; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOGENE K RAS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CODON; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 20044375004     PISSN: 13479032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2005.00037.x     Document Type: Article

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