Molecular biology of bladder cancer: New insights into pathogenesis and clinical diversity

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 25-41

  Knowles, Margaret A ^a   Hurst, Carolyn D ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER;

BLADDER CANCER; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CHROMOSOME 9; DNA DAMAGE CHECKPOINT; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPIGENETICS; FANCONI ANEMIA; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUSCLE INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER; MUTATION RATE; NON MUSCLE INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOMATIC MUTATION; TELANGIECTASIA; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; BLADDER TUMOR; CARCINOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UROTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENESIS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 84925545335     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3817     Document Type: Review

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