Article
An uncertain role for p53 gene alterations in human prostate cancers.
Cancer research - 15 Aug 1996
Brooks J D, Bova G S, Ewing C M, Piantadosi S, Carter B S, Robinson J C, Epstein J I, Isaacs W B
Abstract excerpt
Inactivation of the p53 gene has been implicated in prostate cancer progression. To determine the role of p53 inactivation in the progression of clinical prostatic carcinomas, we assessed 67 tumors derived from patients with clinically localized disease for chromosome 17p and p53 gene allelic los...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Chromosome Deletion
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- Genes, p53
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Neoplasm Metastasis
- Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
- Prostatic Neoplasms
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
