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c-KIT positive schistosomal urinary bladder carcinoma are frequent but lack KIT gene mutations.
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP - 1 Jan 2013
Shams Tahany M, Metawea Mokhtar, Salim Elsayed I
Abstract excerpt
Urinary bladder squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), one of the most common neoplasms in Egypt, is attributed to chronic urinary infection with Schistosoma haematobium (Schistosomiasis). The proto-oncogene c-KIT, encoding a tyrosine kinase receptor and implicated in the development of a number of human malignancies, has not been studied so far in schistosomal urinary bladder SCCs. We therefore determined...
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