High circulating hepatocyte growth factor levels associate with epithelial to mesenchymal transition and poor outcome in small cell lung cancer patients

Oncotarget

Volumn 5, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5246-5256

  Cañadas, Israel ^a   Taus, Álvaro ^a   González, Iria ^a   Villanueva, Xavier ^a   Gimeno, Javier ^a   Pijuan, Lara ^a   Dómine, Manuel ^b   Sánchez Font, Albert ^a   Vollmer, Ivan ^a   Menéndez, Silvia ^a   Mojal, Sergi ^c   Arpí, Oriol ^a   Rojo, Federico ^b   Rovira, Ana ^a   Albanell, Joan ^a,d   Arriola, Edurne ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UAM)   (Spain)

^c INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chemoresistance; Epithelial to mesenchymal transition; Hepatocyte growth factor; Met; Small cell lung cancer

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; SCATTER FACTOR; HGF PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84906255314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.2124     Document Type: Article

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