FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: method involves carrying out immunohistochemical analysis of withdrawn tumor cells to determine percentage of cells showing Bax expression with respect to general quantity of cancer cells in vision field, percentage of cells showing Bcl-2 expression, index disclosing relation between the values. The index value being less than 1.0, high metastasis progress probability is to be predicted.
EFFECT: high accuracy of prognosis.
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Dates
2005-01-20—Published
2003-03-06—Filed