Prognostic significance of mitotic figures in metastatic mammary ductal carcinoma to the lymph nodes

Human Pathology

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1823-1832

  Hasebe, Takahiro ^a   Iwasaki, Motoki ^a   Akashi Tanaka, Sadako ^b   Hojo, Takashi ^b   Shibata, Tatsuhiro ^c   Sasajima, Yuko ^b   Kinoshita, Takayuki ^b   Tsuda, Hitoshi ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Lymph node; Metastasis; Mitosis; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FIBROSIS; HAZARD RATIO; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITOSIS; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MITOTIC INDEX; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052032070     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: 15328392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2011.02.015     Document Type: Article

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