Predominance of younger age, advanced stage, poorly-differentiated and mucinous histology in Israeli Arab patients with colorectal cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1 B, 2006, Pages 533-537

  Shpitz, Baruch ^a,b   Millman, Maya ^a   Ziv, Yehiel ^a   Klein, Ehud ^a   Grankin, Milla ^b   Gochberg, Semion ^a   Sandbank, Judith ^b   Halevi, Arie ^a   Bernheim, Joelle ^b   Khromov, Yakov ^c   Gutman, Mordechay ^a   Sayfan, Joel ^c  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Department of Surgery A   (Israel)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Ethnic origin; Mismatch repair proteins

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MSH2;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ARAB; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISRAEL; JEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUCINOUS CARCINOMA; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ARABS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 32144459528     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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