Histological characteristics of tumors in blood vessels play an important role in tumor progression of invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast

Cancer Science

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 158-165

  Hasebe, Takahiro ^a   Sasaki, Satoshi ^a   Imoto, Shigeru ^b   Ochiai, Atsushi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MITOSIS INDEX; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR EMBOLISM; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD VESSELS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOTIC INDEX; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037648685     PISSN: 13479032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2003.tb01413.x     Document Type: Article

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