[PDF] Top 20 The Hemoglobin Level as a Prognostic Factor in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Gemcitabine and cis-Platinum

... finding in cancer patients. Up to 30% of patients with different types of tumors have been reported to suffer from anemia ...to the disease process itself or to its treatment, ... See full document

... NSCLC patients with stage I through IV who were undergoing resection of primary cancer at the Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China, from April 2005 to December 2011 ... See full document

... determine the best cut-off value for LMR as a prognostic ...PFS and OS analyses were performed using the Kaplan-Meier method and the log-rank ...MBR and their association ... See full document

... is the first type of immune cell that responds to the site of infection and attack invaders ...However, the inflammatory cells and cytokines found in tumors are more ... See full document

... by the ethics committees of Austin Health, St Vincent’s Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Centre hospitals, patients who underwent pre-operative NAC or surgery with or without ACT for pN2 ... See full document

... patients in the validation ...xylene and alcohols, samples were lysed in a tris-chloride, EDTA, sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) and proteinase K containing ...extracted with ... See full document

... Lung cancer remains the most common cause of can- cer death worldwide for both men and ...all lung cancer cases ...of patients diagnosed with NSCLC present at ... See full document

... tumor cell vaccine raised a question of whether and to what extent is the T cell immunity provoked by systemic injection of tumor cell vaccine enriches in the tumor ... See full document

... presented with a mass in the right upper lobe associated with mediastinal lymph node ...enlargement. The radiological proile was consistent with primary lung ... See full document

... for the adaptive immune system, and are the cellular basis of cancer immunosur- veillance and immunoediting ...indicate the generation of an effective anti-tu- mor cellular ... See full document

... aim. The use of TMA blocks have shown various advantages compared to that of traditional sections: savings of time and reagents required to perform the reactions; standardization of reactions; ... See full document

... NSCLCs in patients with European or African ethnicities, 35% of NSCLCs in East Asians, and 50% of NSCLCs in never- smokers are EGFR mutation ...positive. The paucity of ... See full document

... growth factor receptor (EGFR) is critically involved in NSCLC pathogenesis and has recently emerged as an important target for molecular ...Two small-molecule EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors, ... See full document

... ung cancer leads to death including both man & woman .In diagnostic view PET is a quantitative positron imaging technique which is helpful in early diagnosis of lung cancer ... See full document

... achieved in the management of NSCLC, identification of specific molec- ular criteria is still a challenge to increase response rates ...[14]. In the present study, we analyzed the gene ... See full document

... Lung cancer leads all other cancers in both incidence and mortality ...worldwide. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for 89% of all lung ... See full document

... amplification. In situ hybridization techniques are used to measure gene amplification that relies on either fluorescence (FISH) or chromogenic and silver in situ hybridiza- tion (CISH and ... See full document

... found in various carcinomas that arise in various organs such as stomach, bronchus, gladder, prostate, testis and ovary due to the ubiquitous nature of ...Especially, in ovaries of both ... See full document

... to platinum-based chemotherapy is a major clinical challenge in cancer treatment, since the cellular response which confers resistance to carboplatin is multifactorial and poorly ... See full document

... considered. The disease stage of the included patients was not homogeneous: Zhu et ...studied patients with early-stage disease, and Li et ...tumor and normal ...include ... See full document