Expression of dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, orotate phosphoribosyl transferase and thymidylate synthase in patients with primary colorectal cancer, and associations with site of first metastasis

Anticancer Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2277-2282

  Akagi, Yoshito ^a   Kinugasa, Tetsushi ^a   Mizobe, Tomoaki ^a   Kawahara, Akihiko ^b   Kage, Masayoshi ^b   Shirouzu, Kazuo ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 FU related enzymes; Colorectal cancer; Hematogenous metastasis; Immunohistochemical staining

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROPYRIMIDINE DEHYDROGENASE; FLUOROURACIL; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYL TRANSFERASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ADOLESCENT; BIOSYNTHESIS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ENZYMOLOGY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIHYDROURACIL DEHYDROGENASE (NADP); DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864533462     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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