Women with synchronous primary cancers of the endometrium and ovary: Do they have Lynch syndrome?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 36, 2005, Pages 9344-9350

  Soliman, Pamela T ^a   Broaddus, Russell R ^a   Schmeler, Kathleen M ^a   Daniels, Molly S ^a   Gonzalez, Delia ^a   Slomovitz, Brian M ^a   Gershenson, David M ^a   Lu, Karen H ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MSH2; PROTEIN MSH6; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHYLATION; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; BASE MISPAIRING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE CANCER; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PEDIGREE; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PEDIGREE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33644831829     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.03.5915     Document Type: Article

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