Article
Markers of the metastatic phenotype in prostate cancer.
Human pathology - 1 Apr 1992
Foster C S, McLoughlin J, Bashir I, Abel P D
Abstract excerpt
Metastatic malignant disease is the single most common cause of treatment failure and subsequent mortality of most human malignancies, including prostate cancer. Presently, cells expressing the metastatic phenotype cannot be identified within a primary tumor population. Hence, accurate assessment of the likely behavior of an individual primary malignancy cannot be made at the time of diagnosis. The studies now...
Topics
- Animals
- Biomarkers, Tumor
- Carbohydrate Sequence
- Flow Cytometry
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neoplasm Metastasis
- Oligosaccharides
- Oncogenes
- Phenotype