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Prognostic importance of glomeruloid microvascular proliferation indicates an aggressive angiogenic phenotype in human cancers.
Cancer research - 1 Dec 2002
Straume Oddbjørn, Chappuis Pierre O, Salvesen Helga B, Halvorsen Ole J, Haukaas Svein A, Goffin John R, Bégin Louis R, Foulkes William D, Akslen Lars A
Abstract excerpt
We evaluated the presence of glomeruloid microvascular proliferations (GMPs) in 723 patients with melanomas, breast, endometrial, or prostate cancer. Presence of GMPs was associated with markers of aggressive tumor behavior and significantly reduced survival or increased clinical recurrences in all four of the cancer types in univariate analysis. GMPs were related to increased microvessel density in prostate...
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