Tumor classification: Molecular analysis meets Aristotle

BMC Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Berman, Jules J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RESEARCH; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOGENETICS; DATA BASE; DISEASE COURSE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GERM CELL TUMOR; LINGUISTICS; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY;

GERMINOMA; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 3042840987     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-4-10     Document Type: Review

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