Prognostic value of nuclear grading assessed by image cytometry for node negative breast cancer patients

Anticancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 6 C, 1996, Pages 3949-3954

  Kimijima, Izo ^a   Watanabe, Takanori ^a   Abe, Rikiya ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Morphometry; Node negative; Nuclear grade; Prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL TIME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030485721     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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