Association of immunoreactive hepatocyte growth factor with poor survival in resectable non-small cell lung cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 433-439

  Siegfried, Jill M ^a,d   Weissfeld, Lisa A ^b   Singh Kaw, Praveena ^a   Weyant, Robert J ^c   Testa, Joseph R ^e   Landreneau, Rodney J ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUNG FIBROBLAST; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031057905     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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