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Elevated levels of telomerase activity in malignant pheochromocytoma.
Cancer - 1 Jan 1998
Kubota Y, Nakada T, Sasagawa I, Yanai H, Itoh K
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Although malignant pheochromocytoma is a life-threatening illness, there is no excretory profile that is predictive of malignancy. Reliable prediction of malignant behavior on the basis of histopathology is also notoriously difficult. Although DNA ploidy can be a helpful indicator, aneuploidy per se is not considered to be a specific marker of malignancy. Mutations in p53 have been reported to occur...
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