DETERMINATION OF PROLIFERATION INDEX IN ADVANCED OVARIAN-CANCER USING QUANTITATIVE IMAGE-ANALYSIS
DETERMINATION OF PROLIFERATION INDEX IN ADVANCED OVARIAN-CANCER USING QUANTITATIVE IMAGE-ANALYSIS
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DOI:
10.1093/ajcp/99.6.736
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发表时间:
1993-06-01
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
BERCHUCK, A
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作者:
JORDAN, PA;KERNS, BJM;BERCHUCK, A
It has been shown that the monoclonal antibody Ki-67 reacts with a nuclear antigen that is expressed only by proliferating cells. The feasibility of using image analysis to quantitate Ki-67 staining (proliferation index [PI]) of epithelial ovarian cancers was investigated. The PI was determined in 50 advanced-stage primary ovarian cancers. Frozen sections were immunostained with the Ki-67 monoclonal antibody, and the PI was calculated using static image analysis. Among 35 stage III ovarian carcinomas, the median PI was 8.9%, compared with 17.7% in 15 stage IV cancers (P = 0.06). There was no relationship between PI and histologic grade. The median survival time of 32 patients whose cancers had a high Ki-67 expression (greater-than-or-equal-to 7.5%) was 16.8 months, which differed significantly (P