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Response to radiotherapy of human uterine cervix carcinoma is not correlated with rearrangements of the Ha-ras-1 and/or c-myc genes.
European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) - 1 May 1997
Polischouk A G, Scotnikova O I, Sergeeva N S, Zharinov G M, Lewensohn R, Zhivotovsky B
Abstract excerpt
An association between the presence of the activated form of Ha-ras-1 and c-myc genes and increased cellular radioresistance has been shown in several cell lines. The aim of this study was to determine whether such an association could be observed in clinical tumour biopsies. We examined 70 tumour specimens and 51 samples of peripheral blood obtained from untreated patients with carcinoma of the uterine cervix...
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