The prognostic value of angiogenesis by Chalkley counting in a confirmatory study design on 836 breast cancer patients

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 139-146

  Hansen, Steinbjørn ^a,c   Grabau, Dorthe A ^a,c   Sørensen, Flemming B ^b   Bak, Martin ^a   Vach, Werner ^c   Rose, Carsten ^a,c  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033980767     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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