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Article: Findings from Albert-Ludwigs University advance knowledge in ovarian cancer.(Report)
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- November 17, 2009
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A report, 'Intraepithelial CD8-positive T lymphocytes predict survival for patients with serous stage III ovarian carcinomas: relevance of clonal selection of T lymphocytes,' is newly published data in British Journal of Cancer. According to a study from Freiburg, Germany, "The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic effect of tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in serous stage III ovarian carcinoma to determine TIL clonality and to correlate this to Her2/neu expression. Formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded ovarian carcinomas were examined for CD20-, CD3-, CD4-and CD8-positive lymphocytes (n=100), and for Her2/neu-positive tumor cells (n=55/100) by ...