Preoperative serum vascular endothelial growth factor can predict stage in colorectal cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1279-1285

  Kumar, Harish ^a   Heer, Kamal ^a   Lee, Peter W R ^a   Duthie, Graeme S ^a   MacDonald, Alastair W ^b   Greenman, John ^a   Kerin, Michael J ^a   Monson, John R T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b CASTLE HILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; TUMOR MARKER; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0031900272     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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