Lung cancer-a fractal viewpoint

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 664-675

  Lennon, Frances E ^a   Cianci, Gianguido C ^e   Cipriani, Nicole A ^b   Hensing, Thomas A ^c   Zhang, Hannah J ^f   Chen, Chin Tu ^c   Murgu, Septimiu D ^d   Vokes, Everett E ^a   Vannier, Michael W ^c   Salgia, Ravi ^a  

^a SECTION OF HEMATOLOGY ONCOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BEVACIZUMAB; SUNITINIB;

CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG RESPONSE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GEOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR GROWTH; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY;

FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84945562826     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2015.108     Document Type: Review

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