Axillary lymph node involvement, a unique pattern of metastasis in BRAF-mutant colorectal cancer

JAMA Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 686-687

  Lipsyc, Marla D ^a   Yaeger, Rona ^a   Dengel, Lynn T ^b   Saltz, Leonard ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Martha Jefferson Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; BRAF PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; CASE REPORT; COLORECTAL TUMOR; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964695159     PISSN: 23742437     EISSN: 23742445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.0569     Document Type: Letter

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