TY - JOUR AU - Kato, Hiroshi AB - tubi196.qxd 13.11.1998 11:55 Seite 1 20th Anniversary Meeting on SCC Antigen Proceedings The 6th International Chairman Gynecologic Cancer Society Hiroshi Kato, Ube Satellite Workshop, October 22, 1997, Fukuoka, Japan N N N N N Basel Freiburg Paris London New York N N N N ABC New Delhi Bangkok Singapore Tokyo Sydney W15:ZTUBI502XA SIBY 20th Anniversary Meeting on SCC Antigen W Proceedings Tumor Biol 1998;478–479 Hiroshi Kato Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan The milestone discovery of carcinoem- cinoma antigen (SCC antigen). I greatly ap- bryonic antigen in 1965 has stimulated many preciate and am thankful for their continued investigators to search for new serological tu- contribution to the basic and clinical research mor markers that could discriminate between on SCC antigen, including the sponsorship of benign and malignant tumors. On a sunny this workshop. Extensive studies of the clini- afternoon in October 1973, three rabbits in cal use of SCC antigen in many countries have our laboratory were immunized with a crude revealed that SCC antigen can be useful not extract of human squamous cell carcinoma of only for cervical cancer but also for a variety the uterine cervix. The purified antigen was TI - Introduction JF - Tumor Biology DO - 10.1159/000030040 DA - 1998-12-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/karger/introduction-MYzH7bCdec SP - 477 EP - 479 VL - 19 IS - 6 DP - DeepDyve ER -