Article
p53 alterations are predictive of chemoresistance and aggressiveness in ovarian carcinomas: a molecular and immunohistochemical study.
British journal of cancer - 1 Jan 1997
Buttitta F, Marchetti A, Gadducci A, Pellegrini S, Morganti M, Carnicelli V, Cosio S, Gagetti O, Genazzani A R, Bevilacqua G
Abstract excerpt
Chemotherapeutic management of ovarian cancers is a difficult task as these neoplasms show significant differences in chemosensitivity, even if they share identical clinicopathological features. The present study was undertaken to investigate the prognostic and predictive role of p53 alterations...
Topics
- Antineoplastic Agents
- Cell Nucleus
- DNA, Neoplasm
- Drug Resistance
- Female
- Genes, p53
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- Ovarian Neoplasms
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
