Evaluations of interferon-γ/interleukin-4 ratio and neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio as prognostic indicators in gastric cancer patients

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 742-747

  Ubukata, Hideyuki ^a   Motohashi, Gyou ^a   Tabuchi, Takanobu ^a   Nagata, Hiroyuki ^a   Konishi, Satoru ^a   Tabuchi, Takafumi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 year survival; before and after surgery; negative linear correlation; NLR; Th1 Th2 balance

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEUTROPHILS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 78649681340     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.21725     Document Type: Article

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