Article
[The molecular diagnosis of cancer].
Revista de investigacion clinica; organo del Hospital de Enfermedades de la Nutricion - 1 Jan 2000
Barrera Saldaña Hugo, Martínez Garza Sandra, Ortiz López Rocío
Abstract excerpt
Cancer is considered a genetic disease, being classified as an accumulative somatic disorder aside of the Mendelian diseases, the chromosomopaties and the multifactorial diseases. It has been demonstrated in several human cancers that specific mutations in some genes are related to hystopathologic features and tumor progression. Thereby, mutations represent potentially valuable markers in disease-stage detection...
Topics
- Biomarkers, Tumor
- Breast Neoplasms
- Colorectal Neoplasms
- DNA Repair
- Female
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Humans
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive
- Lung Neoplasms
- Male
- Mutation
- Neoplasm Proteins
- Neoplasms
- Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary
- Oncogenes
- Papillomaviridae
- Papillomavirus Infections
- Proto-Oncogenes
