Expression of integrin-linked kinase is not a useful prognostic marker in resected hepatocellular cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 27, Issue 6 C, 2007, Pages 4371-4376

  Intaraprasong, Pongphob ^a   Assi, Kiran ^a   Owen, David A ^a   Huntsman, David G ^a   Chung, Stephen W ^a   Scudamore, Charles H ^a   Yoshida, Eric M ^a   Salh, Baljinder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular cancer; Integrin linked kinase; Survival; Tissue microarray

Indexed keywords

INTEGRIN LINKED KINASE; SERINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE MICROARRAY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 37549038591     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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