| Literature DB >> 8595170 |
F Janot1, J Klijanienko, A Russo, J P Mamet, F de Braud, A K El-Naggar, J P Pignon, B Luboinski, E Cvitkovic.
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The prognostic weight of histological and biological factors was compared with that of known clinical prognostic factors in a population of 108 consecutive previously untreated patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Parameters studied were: tumour vascularisation, mitotic index, histological differentiation, nuclear grade, keratinisation, desmoplasia, growth pattern, inflammation, tumour emboli in peripheral vessels, keratins 6, 13, 19 immunohistochemical expression, cytofluorometric ploidy and S-phase. In multivariate analysis (Cox), only age and nodal status had a significant impact on the overall survival, whereas T stage was the only significant factor associated with locoregional failure. The cumulative incidence of metastases was correlated not only with age, T and N stage, but also with histological differentiation. All the other histological and biological factors studied failed to provide further prognostic information. These findings may help to select patients with high metastatic risk.Entities:
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Year: 1996 PMID: 8595170 PMCID: PMC2074448 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1996.92
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Cancer ISSN: 0007-0920 Impact factor: 7.640