Microarray technologies in the diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancer

Source: emedicine.medscape.com Authors: Perminder S Parmar, MD et al. Introduction Since the draft sequence of the human genome was published in 2001 (Lander, 2001), the Cancer Genome Anatomy Project index of tumor genes has classified more than 40,000 genes directly or indirectly involved in one or more cancers (Strausberg, 2001; Strausberg, 2000). Conventional techniques of gene investigation in [...]