Emerging role of microRNAs as liquid biopsy biomarkers in gastrointestinal cancers

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 2391-2399

  Shigeyasu, Kunitoshi ^a   Toden, Shusuke ^a   Zumwalt, Timothy J ^a   Okugawa, Yoshinaga ^a   Goel, Ajay ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TUMOR MARKER;

BILE DUCT CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER THERAPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LIQUID BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA STABILITY; STOMACH CANCER; BLOOD; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIQUID BIOPSY; MICRORNAS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 85017685132     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: 15573265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-16-1676     Document Type: Review

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