Esophageal cancer
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Approximately 300 surgically resected esophageal cancer patients at the National Cancer Center Hospital East during the period from 2000 January 1 to 2011 December 31, whom paraffin-embedded blocks of tissue microarray specimens were stored in the National Cancer Center Exploratory Oncology Research and Clinical Trial Center
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Whom specimens can not be used for analysis during the sample preparation of the tissue microarray specimens
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Post-operative recurrence-free survival and overall survival | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Items collected from cancer tissue by image analysis, specifically, morphometric parameters such as macrophage density in cancer tissue, macrophage major axis, minor axis, area, average cytoplasmic aspect ratio, cytoplasmic content of target protein Mean fluorescence intensity, sum of cytoplasmic fluorescence intensity | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine Division of Pathology, Department of Pathology