Telomerase activity in human breast cancer and benign breast lesions: Diagnostic applications in clinical specimens, including fine needle aspirates

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 301-306

  Sugino, Takashi ^a   Yoshida, Kazuhiro ^a   Bolodeoku, John ^a   Tahara, Hidetoshi ^c   Buley, Ian ^b   Manek, Sanjiv ^b   Wells, Clive ^d   Goodison, Steven ^a   Ide, Toshinori ^c   Suzuki, Toshimitsu ^e   Tahara, Eiichi ^c   Tarin, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELOMERASE;

EID: 9544243732     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19960822)69:4<301::AID-IJC11>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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