HER2 expression and its clinicopathological features in resectable gastric cancer

Gastric Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 84-93

  Kataoka, Yoshiki ^a   Okabe, Hiroshi ^a   Yoshizawa, Akihiko ^b,c   Minamiguchi, Sachiko ^c   Yoshimura, Kenichi ^c   Haga, Hironori ^c   Sakai, Yoshiharu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; Immunohistochemistry; In situ hybridization; Mucin phenotype

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; MUCIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DUAL COLOR IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CANCER;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEPRILYSIN; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 84872678196     PISSN: 14363291     EISSN: 14363305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10120-012-0150-9     Document Type: Article

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