Changing histopathological diagnostics by genome-based tumor classification

Genes

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 444-459

  Kloth, Michael ^a,b   Buettner, Reinhard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging Associated Diseases   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer genomics; Human genome project; Targeted therapies; Tumor classification

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; BCR ABL PROTEIN; DASATINIB; ERLOTINIB; GEFITINIB; IMATINIB; JANUS KINASE 2; PERTUZUMAB; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; TRASTUZUMAB; TRASTUZUMAB EMTANSINE; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; DISEASE MARKER; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EWING SARCOMA; FGFR1 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPHOMA; MIXED MYELODYSPLASTIC MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASM; ONCOGENE K RAS; ONCOGENE N RAS; PDGFRA GENE; PDGFRB GENE; REVIEW; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84902270913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes5020444     Document Type: Review

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