The cancer genome atlas findings in head and neck cancer: A renewed hope

Current Opinion in Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 245-246

  De Castro, Gilberto ^a   Negrão, Marcelo Vailati ^a  

^a Instituto do Cancer do Estado de Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ANTIOXIDANT RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; CANCER CELL; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; EDITORIAL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOBACCO CONSUMPTION; WART VIRUS;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DNA, NEOPLASM; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RNA, NEOPLASM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84899480125     PISSN: 10408746     EISSN: 1531703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCO.0000000000000075     Document Type: Editorial

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