The prognostic significance of lymphovascular invasion in invasive breast carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 3670-3680

  Rakha, Emad A ^a   Martin, Stewart ^b   Lee, Andrew H S ^a   Morgan, David ^b   Pharoah, Paul D P ^c   Hodi, Zsolt ^a   MacMillan, Douglas ^b   Ellis, Ian O ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

invasive breast carcinoma; lymph node status; lymphovascular invasion; outcome; prognosis

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84864147564     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26711     Document Type: Article

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