Prognostic significance of the intra-vessel tumor characteristics of invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast: A prospective study

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 444, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 20-27

  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

Apoptosis; Blood vessel; Breast cancer; Lymph vessel; Mitosis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST DUCT; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPH VESSEL ENDOTHELIUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITOSIS; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STROMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR EMBOLISM; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASCULAR TUMOR; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD VESSELS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; ENDOTHELIUM, LYMPHATIC; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; MITOSIS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 1042288610     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-003-0921-0     Document Type: Article

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