The prognostic significance of intratumoral natural killer cells in patients with colerectal carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2320-2328

  Coca, Santiago ^a,b   Perez Piqueras, Javier ^a   Martinez, David ^a   Colmenarejo, Antonio ^a   Saez, Miguel A ^a   Vallejo, Carmen ^a   Martos, Jose A ^a   Moreno, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Hospital del Aire   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colerectal carcinoma; Multivariate analysis; Natural killer cell; Prognostic factor; Survival rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL INFILTRATION; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; KILLER CELLS; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030902366     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19970615)79:12<2320::AID-CNCR5>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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