Assessment of RT-PCR detection of human mammaglobin for the diagnosis of breast cancer derived pleural effusions

Authors :: Silvio Roncella
L. Pratticò
Paolo Pronzato
Paola Ferro
B. Bacigalupo
Maria Cristiana Franceschini
Pier Aldo Canessa
Maria Pia Pistillo
Vincenzo Fontana
A M Carletti
Franco Fedeli
Source :: Journal of Clinical Oncology. 26:1112-1112
Publication Year :: 2008
Publisher :: American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2008.
Abstract: 1112 Background: Detection of breast cancer (BC) cells in pleural effusions (PE) is usually achieved by routine cytomorphology. However, the diagnosis of PE by this methodology shows scarce sensiti...

Subjects :: Oncology
Cancer Research
medicine.medical_specialty
biology
business.industry
medicine.disease
Mammaglobin
Real-time polymerase chain reaction
Breast cancer
Internal medicine
biology.protein
Medicine
business

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