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Detection of minimal residual cancer to investigate why oral tumors recur despite seemingly adequate treatment.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Jul 2000
Partridge M, Li S R, Pateromichelakis S, Francis R, Phillips E, Huang X H, Tesfa-Selase F, Langdon J D
Abstract excerpt
Improvements in surgery and radiotherapy techniques have led to only a modest increase in the 5-year survival rate for patients with head and neck cancer. This is because the pattern of clinical disease is changing, such that locoregional recurrence now accounts for fewer treatment failures, but more patients develop a second primary cancer or distant metastatic disease. In this study, we have used the p53 phage...
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