Evaluation of the prognostic value of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in triple-negative breast cancers

Oncotarget

Volumn 7, Issue 28, 2016, Pages 44395-44405

  Tian, Tian ^a,b   Ruan, Miao ^a,b   Yang, Wentao ^a,b   Shui, Ruohong ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Prognostic factor; Survival; Triple negative; Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHINESE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84978775190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.10054     Document Type: Article

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