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Defining cancer growth beyond the mitotic index

Nature Cell Biology volume 24, pages 285–287 (2022)Cite this article

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Tumour growth involves anomalies in cell cycle genes and emergent phenotypes, but the tumour proliferation rate (or mitotic index) is defined by just one marker, Ki-67. A study now integrates expression patterns of several markers to generate spatio-temporal maps of cell proliferation in cancer tissues.

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Fig. 1: Development of a multivariate proliferation metric, and spatio-temporal mapping of cell proliferation landscape in tumour samples.

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  1. Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Chandan Kumar-Sinha & Arul M. Chinnaiyan

  2. Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Chandan Kumar-Sinha & Arul M. Chinnaiyan

  3. Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Arul M. Chinnaiyan

  4. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA

    Arul M. Chinnaiyan

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Kumar-Sinha, C., Chinnaiyan, A.M. Defining cancer growth beyond the mitotic index. Nat Cell Biol 24, 285–287 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-022-00862-7

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