Deoxycitidine kinase is associated with prolonged survival after adjuvant gemcitabine for resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 5200-5206

  Maréchal, Raphaël ^a   MacKey, John R ^b   Lai, Raymond ^b   Demetter, Pieter ^a   Peeters, Marc ^c   Polus, Marc ^d   Cass, Carol E ^b   Salmon, Isabelle ^a   Devière, Jacques ^a   Van Laethem, Jean Luc ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d CHU SART TILMAN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

cancer; deoxycytidine kinase; gemcitabine; pancreas; surgery

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DEOXYCYTIDINE KINASE; GEMCITABINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CELL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PATIENT SELECTION; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DEOXYCYTIDINE KINASE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78449295201     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25303     Document Type: Article

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