Circulating endothelial progenitor cell: a promising biomarker in clinical oncology

Medical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-10

  Ge, Yu Zheng ^a   Wu, Ran ^a   Lu, Tian Ze ^a   Xin, Hui ^a   Yu, Peng ^b   Zhao, Yan ^c   Liu, Hao ^d   Xu, Zheng ^a   Xu, Lu Wei ^a   Shen, Jiang Wei ^a   Xu, Xiao ^e   Zhou, Liu Hua ^a   Li, Wen Cheng ^a   Zhu, Jia Geng ^a   Jia, Rui Peng ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^e General Hospital of Jiangsu Armed Police   (China)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Cancer; Endothelial progenitor cells; Vascularization

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

CANCER PROGNOSIS; CIRCULATING ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ONCOLOGY; REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; BLOOD; NEOPLASM; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELLS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC;

EID: 84919922685     PISSN: 13570560     EISSN: 1559131X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12032-014-0332-x     Document Type: Review

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