Vulvar Cancer

Expression of Ki-67 Correlates with Clinical Prognostic Factors

Published in Cancer Weekly, April 4th, 2000

Expression of Ki-67 is not diagnostic, but does correlate with clinical prognostic factors in vulvar carcinoma patients, according to a recent report.

"In vulvar carcinoma, the expression of Ki-67 has been previously found to correlate with patient outcome," stated S.C. Modesitt and colleagues from the University of North Carolina, USA. "The objective of the study was to determine whether a specific pattern of expression was associated with occult vulvar cancer in patients with vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN) III and whether patterns of Ki-67 expression correlated with other clinical prognostic factors."

Modesitt et al. published their...

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