Epidermal growth factor receptor gene amplification is acquired in association with tumor progression of EGFR-mutated lung cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2106-2111

  Yatabe, Yasushi ^a   Takahashi, Takashi ^b   Mitsudomi, Tetsuya ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENES, ERBB-1; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MUTATION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 42049094628     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-5211     Document Type: Article

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