Serum endostatin levels are elevated in patients with soft tissue sarcoma

Cancer

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1525-1529

  Feldman, Andrew L ^a   Pak, Ho ^a   Yang, James C ^a   Richard Alexander Jr , H ^a   Libutti, Steven K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Endostatin; Fibroblast growth factor; Soft tissue sarcoma; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; CYTOKINE; ENDOSTATIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA;

ADULT; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE XVIII; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOSTATINS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0035871306     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20010415)91:8<1525::AID-CNCR1161>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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