Open AccessKi 67 is an Independent Predictive Biomarker of Cancer Specific and Local Recurrence-Free Survival After Lung Tumor Ablation
Author(s) -
Constantinos T. Sofocleous,
Sandeep Garg,
Perry Cohen,
Ele. Petre,
Mithat Gönen,
Joseph P. Erinjeri,
Robert J. Downey,
William D. Travis,
Stephen B. Solomon
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
annals of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.764
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1534-4681
pISSN - 1068-9265
DOI - 10.1245/s10434-013-3140-1
Subject(s) - medicine , lung cancer , hazard ratio , oncology , radiofrequency ablation , cancer , ablation , surgical oncology , pathology , confidence interval
The objective of this work was to evaluate the feasibility of histopathological analysis of tissue extracted on multitined electrodes and assess whether tissue characteristics can be used as biomarkers of oncologic outcomes after lung tumor radiofrequency (RF) ablation.