Risk stratification of oral cancer patients using a combined prognostic factor including lymph node density and biomarker

Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 483-490

  Kim, Ki Yeol ^a   Cha, In Ho ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Dentistry   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Combined prognostic factor; IMP3; Lymph node density; Oral squamous cell carcinoma; Risk stratification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DENSITY; LYMPHATIC PARAMETERS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; ORAL SURGERY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VALIDATION STUDY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHEMISTRY; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH TUMOR; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UPREGULATION;

IMP3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84859706250     PISSN: 01715216     EISSN: 14321335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00432-011-1129-3     Document Type: Article

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