BRAF Mutation is associated with early stage disease and improved outcome in patients with low-grade serous ovarian cancer

Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 548-554

  Grisham, Rachel N ^a   Iyer, Gopa ^a   Garg, Karuna ^a   Delair, Deborah ^a   Hyman, David M ^a   Zhou, Qin ^a   Iasonos, Alexia ^a   Berger, Michael F ^a   Dao, Fanny ^a   Spriggs, David R ^a   Levine, Douglas A ^a   Aghajanian, Carol ^a   Solit, David B ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

BRAF; early stage disease; low grade serous ovarian cancer; outcomes; ovarian cancer

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; K RAS PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BRAF GENE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOW GRADE SEROUS OVARY CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ONCOGENE K RAS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CYSTADENOMA, SEROUS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VALINE;

EID: 84872930026     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27782     Document Type: Article

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