Fractal analysis of nuclear histology integrates tumor and stromal features into a single prognostic factor of the oral cancer microenvironment

BMC Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Bose, Pinaki ^a,b   Brockton, Nigel T ^c   Guggisberg, Kelly ^d   Nakoneshny, Steven C ^a   Kornaga, Elizabeth ^e   Klimowicz, Alexander C ^f   Tambasco, Mauro ^g   Dort, Joseph C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^c ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES   (Canada)

^d Rockyview General Hospital   (Canada)

^e TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^f BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^g SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; CANADA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR FRACTAL DIMENSION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; CELL NUCLEUS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOUTH TUMOR; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 85019250880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-015-1380-0     Document Type: Article

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