Absence of Bcl-2 and Fas/CD95/APO-1 predicts the response to immunotherapy in metastatic renal cell carcinoma

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1244-1249

  Maruyama, R ^a   Yamana, K ^a   Itoi, T ^a   Hara, N ^a   Bilim, V ^b   Nishiyama, T ^a   Takahashi, K ^a   Tomita, Y ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bcl 2; Fas; Immunotherapy; Renal cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FAS ANTIGEN; FLUOROURACIL; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 2; PROTEIN BCL 2; UFT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; METASTASIS; NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIDE EFFECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD95; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750484271     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603359     Document Type: Article

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