Ki-67 evaluation at the hottest spot predicts clinical outcome of patients with hormone receptor-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer treated with adjuvant tamoxifen monotherapy

Breast Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 71-78

  Honma, Naoko ^a,b   Horii, Rie ^b   Iwase, Takuji ^c   Saji, Shigehira ^d   Younes, Mamoun ^e   Ito, Yoshinori ^c   Akiyama, Futoshi ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c CANCER INSTITUTE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Estrogen receptor; Estrogen receptor ; Ki 67; Progesterone receptor; Tamoxifen

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ERBB2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAMOXIFEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84874726484     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12282-013-0455-5     Document Type: Article

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