Apoptosis index is a predictor of metastatic phenotype in patients with early stage squamous carcinoma of the tongue: A hypothesis to support this paradoxical association

Cancer

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 578-584

  Naresh, Kikkeri N ^a   Lakshminarayanan, Krishnan ^a   Pai, Sanjay A ^a   Borges, Anita M ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Apoptotic index; In situ end labeling; Lymph node; Metastasis; Predictive factors; Predictive oncology; Proliferation; Proliferation index; Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase mediated dUTP nick end labeling; Tongue; Tumor progression

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; METASTASIS; NICK END LABELING; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TUMOR GROWTH;

APOPTOSIS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL DIVISION; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035253667     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20010201)91:3<578::AID-CNCR1037>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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