Prognostic value of poorly differentiated clusters in invasive breast cancer

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sun, Ying ^a,b   Liang, Fenli ^a,c   Cao, Wei ^d   Wang, Kai ^a   He, Jianjun ^a   Wang, Hongyan ^a   Wang, Yili ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c XI'AN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHAANXI PROVINCIAL PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Poorly differentiated cluster; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; INVASIVE DUCTAL CARCINOMA NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; KAPPA STATISTICS; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY RATE; OBSERVER VARIATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POORLY DIFFERENTIATED CLUSTER; RECURRENCE RISK; REPRODUCIBILITY; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR INVASION; BREAST TUMOR; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; MORTALITY; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84927924502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-12-310     Document Type: Article

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