Includes bibliographical references (leaves 40-44). / The aims of this study were to determine the age at presentation and the racial distribution of prostatic adenocarcinoma in the Western Cape region and correlate this with histological grade; to correlate the expression of androgen receptor, bcl-2, p53 and Cox-2 with the Gleason grade of disease and patient demographic data and to establish a method to determine androgen receptor (AR) gene amplification in formalin fixed prostatic carcinoma tissue.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/3083 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Lombard, Elizabeth Helen |
| Contributors | Hall, Pauline de la Motte |
| Publisher | University of Cape Town, Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Anatomical Pathology |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master Thesis, Masters |
| Format | application/pdf |
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