Validation of intratumoral T-bet+ lymphoid cells as predictors of disease-free survival in breast cancer

Cancer Immunology Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 41-48

  Mulligan, Anna Marie ^a,b   Pinnaduwage, Dushanthi ^c   Tchatchou, Sandrine ^c   Bull, Shelley B ^c,d   Andrulis, Irene L ^a,c,e  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN P53; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; LYMPHOID CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME; VALIDATION STUDY; BREAST TUMOR; IMMUNOLOGY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84962022210     PISSN: 23266066     EISSN: 23266074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-15-0051     Document Type: Article

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