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Microsatellite instability associated with primary head and neck cancers and secondary esophageal cancers.
Japanese journal of clinical oncology - 1 Dec 1998
Kiriu H, Yokozaki H, Yasui W, Ito K, Tahara E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: It is common that patients with head and neck cancers have secondary malignant neoplasm of esophageal cancer. METHODS: To know the genetic background of the development of these secondary cancers, we performed microsatellite assay at six loci and immunohistochemical analysis on head and neck cancers of eight patients with esophageal cancer and on those of 19 patients without esophageal cancer....
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