A simple index using video image analysis to predict disease outcome in primary breast cancer

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 203-208

  Lockwood, Coralie A ^a   Ricciardelli, Carmela ^a   Raymond, Wendy A ^a   Seshadri, Ram ^a   Mccaul, Kieran ^b   Horsfall, David J ^a,c  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b South Australian Health Commission   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR VOLUME; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0032992494     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19990621)84:3<203::AID-IJC1>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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