Article
p53 expression and mutations in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: expression correlates with the patients' use of tobacco and alcohol.
Cancer detection and prevention - 1 Jan 1994
Field J K, Zoumpourlis V, Spandidos D A, Jones A S
Abstract excerpt
53 expression was assessed in 93 head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients using CM-1, DO-7, and DO-1 antibodies. Sixty eight percent was found to have positive nuclear staining. The frequency of p53 mutations were investigated in 13 patients using single-stranded conformational polymorphism...
Topics
- Alcohol Drinking
- Base Sequence
- Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
- Genes, p53
- Head and Neck Neoplasms
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Smoking
- Survival Analysis
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
