Molecular determinants of outcome in sorafenib-treated patients with hepatocellular carcinoma

Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1179-1187

  Personeni, Nicola ^a   Rimassa, Lorenza ^a   Pressiani, Tiziana ^a   Destro, Annarita ^a   Ligorio, Claudia ^a   Tronconi, Maria Chiara ^a   Bozzarelli, Silvia ^a   Carnaghi, Carlo ^a   Di Tommaso, Luca ^a   Giordano, Laura ^a   Roncalli, Massimo ^a   Santoro, Armando ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Mcl 1; pERK; Prognosis; Sorafenib

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN MCL 1; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; SORAFENIB;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER OF LIVER ITALIAN PROGRAM SCORE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DOSAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; ONCOGENE MET; ONCOGENE MYC; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, MYC; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIACINAMIDE; PHENYLUREA COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84879228193     PISSN: 01715216     EISSN: 14321335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00432-013-1429-x     Document Type: Article

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