The Degree of Macrophage Infiltration into the Cancer Cell Nest is a Significant Predictor of Survival in Gastric Cancer Patients

Anticancer Research

Volumn 23, Issue 6 D, 2003, Pages 5015-5022

  Ohno, Satoshi ^a,b   Inagawa, Hiroyuki ^c   Dhar, Dipok Kumar ^b   Fujii, Toshiyuki ^b   Ueda, Shuhei ^b   Tachibana, Mitsuo ^b   Suzuki, Nobutaka ^a   Inoue, Masaki ^a   Soma, Gen Ichiro ^c   Nagasue, Naofumi ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKUSHIMA BUNRI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL); Gastric cancer; Prognosis; Tumor associated macrophage (TAM)

Indexed keywords

CD68 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; FEMALE; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH CARCINOMA; STOMACH SURGERY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR CELL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APOPTOSIS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 10744224063     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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