Journal of the National Cancer Institute
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J. Natl. Cancer Inst. · Dec 2018
Association Between Proportion of Nuclei With High Chromatin Entropy and Prognosis in Gynecological Cancers.
Nuclear texture analysis measuring differences in chromatin structure has provided prognostic biomarkers in several cancers. There is a need for improved cell-by-cell chromatin analysis to detect nuclei with highly disorganized chromatin. The purpose of this study was to develop a method for detecting nuclei with high chromatin entropy and to evaluate the association between the presence of such deviating nuclei and prognosis. ⋯ A novel method detected high-chromatin entropy nuclei, and an increased proportion of such nuclei was associated with poor prognosis. Chromatin entropy supplemented existing prognostic markers in multivariable analyses of three gynecological cancer cohorts.