Circulating cell-free methylated DNA and lactate dehydrogenase release in colorectal cancer

BMC Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Philipp, Alexander B ^a   Nagel, Dorothea ^a   Stieber, Petra ^a   Lamerz, Rolf ^a   Thalhammer, Isabel ^a   Herbst, Andreas ^a   Kolligs, Frank T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Dna methylation; Hltf; Hpp1; Ldh; Neurog1

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NEUROGENIN 1; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HLTF PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROG1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TMEFF2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR MARKER; TUMOR PROTEIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL FREE SYSTEM; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME RELEASE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; HLTF GENE; HPP1 GENE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NEUROG1 GENE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR VOLUME; BLOOD; COLORECTAL TUMOR; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROMOTER REGION; TUMOR EMBOLISM; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROGNOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84899491319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-245     Document Type: Article

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