Aberrant expression of β-catenin and E-cadherin is correlated with poor prognosis of nasopharyngeal cancer

Human Pathology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1357-1364

  Xu, Lina ^a   Jiang, Yi ^a   Zheng, Jun ^a,b   Xie, Guiyuan ^a   Li, Jiao ^a   Shi, Lei ^a   Fan, Songqing ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHANGZHI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemistry; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Tissue microarrays; Wnt catenin signaling pathway

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CYCLIN D1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; UVOMORULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; ONCOGENE C MYC; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE MICROARRAY; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84879202537     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: 15328392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2012.10.025     Document Type: Article

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