Prognostic significance of microvessel density in breast cancer of Thai women.

Objective: Angiogenesis is important in the process of tumor growth and progression of breast cancer Microvessel density (MVD) is the most commonly used technique to quantify intratumoral angiogenesis in breast cancer. In the present study, the authors investigated the prognostic indicator of intratumoral MVD in predicting overall survival, disease recurrence, and distance metastasis of breast cancer.

Material And Method: Two hundred patients who were diagnosed as invasive breast cancer from January 2000 to December 2004 were included in the present study, but only 64 patients had complete pathological specimens and tumor receptor studies.