Recent trends of HER-2 testing and trastuzumab therapy for breast cancer

Breast Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 284-287

  Kurosumi, Masafumi ^a  

^a SAITAMA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

BDISH; Breast cancer; FISH; HER 2; Immunohistochemistry; SISH; Trasutuzumab

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; TRASTUZUMAB;

BREAST CANCER; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 17; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; JAPAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METASTASIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2;

EID: 70349690011     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12282-009-0159-z     Document Type: Review

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