Unifocal origin of advanced human epithelial ovarian cancers.

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Unifocal origin of advanced human epithelial ovarian cancers.

Cancer research - 15 Sept 1992

Mok C H, Tsao S W, Knapp R C, Fishbaugh P M, Lau C C

Abstract excerpt

Ovarian cancers are often diagnosed at a late stage, after the cancer cells have spread to extraovarian sites. Failure to diagnose these tumors earlier may reflect the lack of symptoms and the need for a sensitive, reliable screening test. Alternatively, this can be explained by the hypothesis th...

Topics

Adenocarcinoma
Base Sequence
Epithelial Cells
Female
Genes, p53
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Neoplastic Stem Cells
Ovarian Neoplasms
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphism, Genetic

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