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Nature Medicine 6, 711 - 714 (2000)
doi:10.1038/76299

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  • Ie-Ming Shih
  • Christopher Torrance
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Assessing tumors in living animals through measurement of urinary -human chorionic gonadotropin

Ie-Ming Shih^1,2, Christopher Torrance¹, Lori J. Sokoll², Daniel W. Chan^1,2, Kenneth W. Kinzler¹ & Bert Vogelstein^1,3

1. The Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA
2. Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA
3. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA

Correspondence to: Bert Vogelstein^1,3 e-mail: vogelbe@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu

There is no tool more essential to cancer research than the experimental tumor. Every therapeutic and preventative strategy uses such tumors, and tumors growing in animals are instrumental for basic studies of cancer biology^{1, 2, 3}.

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