Article
Genotyping of hepatocellular carcinoma in liver transplant recipients adds predictive power for determining recurrence-free survival.
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society - 1 Jul 2003
Marsh J Wallis, Finkelstein Sydney D, Demetris Anthony J, Swalsky Patricia A, Sasatomi Eizaburo, Bandos Andriy, Subotin Michael, Dvorchik Igor
Abstract excerpt
The goal of this study was to determine whether a panel of tumor suppressor gene markers of allelic loss could serve as a representative indicator of gene damage and thereby provide further discriminative power over current staging systems for recurrence-free prognostication in patients undergoing liver transplantation in the presence of hepatocellular carcinoma. The paraffin blocks from 103 cases of...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
- Female
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Genotype
- Humans
- Liver Neoplasms
- Liver Transplantation
- Loss of Heterozygosity
- Male
- Microsatellite Repeats