The prognostic significance of vascular endothelial growth factor levels in sera of non-small cell lung cancer patients

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 632-636

  Kaya, Akin ^a   Çiledag, Aydin ^a   Gulbay, Banu Eris ^a   Poyraz, Bariş M ^a   Çelik, Gokhan ^a   Sen, Elif ^a   Savas, Hacer ^b   Savas, Ismail ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Department of Biochemistry   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA); Non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC); Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 3242700400     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2003.12.017     Document Type: Article

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