Elevated vascular endothelial growth factor levels in sera of patients with lung cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2 B, 1998, Pages 1251-1254

  Takigawa, Nagio ^a   Segawa, Yoshihiko ^a   Fujimoto, Nobukazu ^a   Hotta, Katsuyuki ^a   Eguchi, Kenji ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION SHIKOKU CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Tumor marker; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0031803176     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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