Prognostic Markers

New prognostic markers findings from S.F. Shariat and co-researchers published

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 5th, 2010

According to recent research from the United States, "The aim of the current study was to externally validate the value of survivin as a prognostic marker for bladder cancer in a large multi-institutional cohort of patients treated with radical cystectomy. The study comprised 726 patients treated with radical cystectomy and bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy."

"Survivin staining and scoring were done with automated systems coupled with advanced color detection software. Specimens showing at least 10% reactivity were considered altered. Predictive accuracy was quantified using the concordance index and 200-bootstrap resamples were used to reduce overfit bias. Survivin was...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-01-05)

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