Vascular endothelial growth factor is associated with neovascularization and influences progression of non-small cell lung carcinoma

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 861-865

  Fontanini, Gabriella ^a   Vignati, Silvana ^a   Boldrini, Laura ^a   Chiné, Silvana ^a   Silvestri, Vanessa ^a   Lucchi, Marco ^a   Mussi, Alfredo ^a   Angeletti, Carlo Alberto ^a   Bevilacqua, Generoso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0030969559     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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