Prognostic significance of interaction between somatic apc mutations and 5-fluorouracil adjuvant chemotherapy in taiwanese colorectal cancer subjects

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 122-126

  Chen, Shee Ping ^a   Wu, Chang Chieh ^b   Lin, Shinn Zong ^c   Kang, Jung Cheng ^d   Su, Chin Cheng ^e   Chen, Yi Lin ^f   Lin, Po Cheng ^g   Chiu, Sheng Chun ^a   Pang, Cheng Yoong ^a,h,i   Harn, Horng Jyh ^c  

^a TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Division of Colon and Rectum Surgery

^e BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^h Graduate Institute of Integration Chinese and Western Medicine   (Taiwan)

ⁱ Buddhist Tzu Chi University ^*  (Taiwan)

Author keywords

5 FU, prognosis; APC; CRC; Somatic mutations

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER TISSUE; COLON; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SAMPLE SIZE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOMATIC MUTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; GENES, APC; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN;

EID: 67749148920     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: 1537453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/COC.0b013e318181f959     Document Type: Article

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