Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor and K-RAS status in two cohorts of squamous cell carcinomas

Autor: Jo Van Dorpe, Filip Baert, Marc Peeters, Pieter Demetter, Jean-Luc Van Laethem, Nadine Van Roy, Alain Bols, Patrick Pauwels, Nancy Van Damme, Franki Speleman, Philippe Deron
Jazyk: angličtina
Předmět:
Male
Pathology
Cancer Research
Tonsillar Neoplasms
DNA Mutational Analysis
Anal Canal
Gene mutation
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Anus Neoplasms -- genetics -- metabolism -- pathology
Cohort Studies
Exon
NECK-CANCER
Belgium
Anal Canal -- chemistry -- pathology
Carcinoma
Squamous Cell -- genetics -- metabolism -- pathology

ras Proteins -- genetics
Medicine and Health Sciences
Tonsillar Neoplasms -- genetics -- metabolism -- pathology
Epidermal growth factor receptor
In Situ Hybridization
Fluorescence

Aged
80 and over

ACTIVATING MUTATIONS
ANAL CANCER
Tonsil carcinoma
Exons
Anal canal
Middle Aged
lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens
Anus Neoplasms
Immunohistochemistry
ErbB Receptors
medicine.anatomical_structure
Oncology
Carcinoma
Squamous Cell

Female
GENE-MUTATIONS
Research Article
Adult
Proto-Oncogene Proteins -- genetics
medicine.medical_specialty
Molecular Sequence Data
Receptor
Epidermal Growth Factor -- analysis -- genetics

Biology
lcsh:RC254-282
Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)
LUNG-CANCER
Proto-Oncogene Proteins
Biomarkers
Tumor

medicine
Genetics
Anal cancer
Humans
HEAD
Lung cancer
Aged
EGFR KINASE DOMAIN
Base Sequence
HUMAN-PAPILLOMAVIRUS
Gene Amplification
Médecine pathologie humaine
medicine.disease
Tumor Markers
Biological -- analysis -- genetics

METASTATIC COLORECTAL-CANCER
COPY NUMBER
Anatomopathologie
Tonsil
Mutation
ras Proteins
biology.protein
Zdroj: BMC cancer, 10
BMC Cancer
BMC Cancer, Vol 10, Iss 1, p 189 (2010)
BMC CANCER
ISSN: 1471-2407
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-189
Popis: With the availability of effective anti-EGFR therapies for various solid malignancies, such as non-cell small lung cancer, colorectal cancer and squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, the knowledge of EGFR and K-RAS status becomes clinically important. The aim of this study was to analyse EGFR expression, EGFR gene copy number and EGFR and K-RAS mutations in two cohorts of squamous cell carcinomas, specifically anal canal and tonsil carcinomas.
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SCOPUS: ar.j
info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Databáze: OpenAIRE