The prognostic significance of proliferating cell nuclear antigen, epidermal growth factor receptor, andmdr gene expression in colorectal cancer

Astrid Mayer, Masafumi Takimoto, E. Fritz, Georgine Schellander, Klaus Kofler, Heinz Ludwig

Cancer · 1993 · 412 citations · 26 references

DOIFull text

Open access

Abstract

Knowledge of the percentage of PCNA-positive cells could be especially helpful in deciding whether to treat patients with localized disease further because adjuvant chemotherapy affects mainly dividing cells and should, therefore, be more successful in tumors with high proliferative activity.

References

26