Browsing by Subject "Neoplasm invasiveness"
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Cancer of unknown primary site
(2012)Cancer of unknown primary site (CUP) is a well recognised clinical disorder, accounting for 3-5 of all malignant epithelial tumours. CUP is clinically characterised as an aggressive disease with early dissemination. ...
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Clear‐cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses: A clinicopathologic study. Presentation of six additional cases with review of the literature
(1984)Clear‐cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses is a rare and slowly growing soft tissue sarcoma, affecting mainly young adults. During the last 15 years, approximately 60 cases have been reported in the literature. In this ...
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Clinicopathological study of the expression of syndecan-1 in invasive breast carcinomas. Correlation with extracellular matrix components
(2004)Syndecan-1, a cell surface proteoglycan found predominantly on epithelia of mature tissues, binds both extracellular matrix (ECM) components and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and is implicated in the restriction ...
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Immunohistochemical expression of extracellular matrix components tenascin, fibronectin, collagen type IV and laminin in breast cancer: Their prognostic value and role in tumour invasion and progression
(2002)The immunohistochemical expression of the extracellular matrix (ECM) components tenascin (TN), fibronectin (FN), collagen type IV (Coll) and laminin (LN), and their possible relationships were studied in a series of 134 ...
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Immunohistochemical expression of superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) anti-oxidant enzyme in invasive breast carcinoma
(2004)The most important cellular protective mechanisms against oxidative stress are antioxidant enzymes. Their action is based on decomposal of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and their transformation to H2O2. Within the mitochondria ...
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Neuroendocrine carcinoma of unknown primary: A systematic review of the literature and a comparative study with other neuroendocrine tumors
(2011)Introduction: Neuroendocrine carcinomas of unknown primary (NCUP) represent a specific subset with relatively favorable prognosis. Data on biology, management and outcome of NCUP patients have not been systematically ...
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The neutrophil, not the tumor: Serum CA 15-3 elevation as a result of granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor-induced neutrophil MUC1 overexpression and neutrophilia in patients with breast carcinoma receiving adjuvant chemotherapy
(2004)BACKGROUND. Patients with resected breast carcinoma who received granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)-supported adjuvant chemotherapy exhibited an increase in their serum CA 15-3 levels. The authors investigated ...
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Prognostic significance of the deleted in colorectal cancer gene protein expression in high-risk resected gastric carcinoma
(2003)The deleted in colorectal cancer (DCC) gene is a candidate tumor suppressor gene that may be associated with differentiation and proliferation of normal cells. Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of 18q, where the gene is located, ...