Article
Clonal origin of bladder cancer.
The New England journal of medicine - 12 Mar 1992
Sidransky D, Frost P, Von Eschenbach A, Oyasu R, Preisinger A C, Vogelstein B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Patients with cancer of the urinary bladder often present with metachronous tumors, appearing at different times and at different sites in the bladder. This observation has been attributed to a "field defect" in the bladder that allows the independent transformation of epithelial cells at a number of sites. We tested this hypothesis using molecular genetic techniques. METHODS: We examined 13 tumors...
Topics
- Alleles
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9
- Clone Cells
- Dosage Compensation, Genetic
- Female
- Humans
- Urinary Bladder Neoplasms
