Expression of human mammaglobin as a marker of bone marrow micrometastasis in breast cancer

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 550-554

  Liu, Yunjiang ^a   Ma, Li ^a   Liu, Xianyi ^a   Wang, Li ^a  

^a HEBEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biological factor; Bone marrow micrometastasis; Breast cancer; Human mammaglobin; Immunohistochemistry; Prognosis; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN D; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MAMMAGLOBIN; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR MARKER; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BONE MARROW METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROMETASTASIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 84862933571     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2011.429     Document Type: Article

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