Relevance of gamma-glutamyltransferase - A marker for apoptotic balance - In predicting tumor stage and prognosis in cervical cancer

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 590-594

  Polterauer, Stephan ^a   Hofstetter, Gerda ^b   Grimm, Christoph ^c   Rahhal, Jasmin ^c   Mailath Pokorny, Mariella ^c   Kohl, Maria ^c   Concin, Nicole ^b   Tempfer, Clemens ^d   Marth, Christian ^b   Reinthaller, Alexander ^c  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Gamma glutamyltransferase; Gamma glutamyltranspeptidase; GGT; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

APOPTOSIS; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80051552694     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2011.05.027     Document Type: Article

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