Exploring biomarkers in head and neck cancer

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 3882-3892

  Langer, Corey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cetuximab; epidermal growth factor receptor; ERCC1; human papillomavirus; K RAS; RRM1; squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck; tubulin

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 8; EXCISION REPAIR CROSS COMPLEMENTING PROTEIN 1; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; MESSENGER RNA; PACLITAXEL; PLATINUM COMPLEX; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; TIRAPAZAMINE; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG RESPONSE; EXCISION REPAIR CROSS COMPLEMENTING PROTEIN 1 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; ONCOGENE H RAS; ONCOGENE K RAS; ONCOGENE N RAS; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE M1 GENE; TUMOR GENE;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; GENES, ERBB-1; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; TUBULIN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84864689048     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26718     Document Type: Review

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