[PDF] Top 20 Prognostic value of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-2 expression in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

... stage of the included patients was not homogeneous: Zhu et ...studied patients with early-stage disease, and Li et ...ELISA analysis on blood samples; another four studies ... See full document

... features of the nine included studies are summarized in Table 1. A total of 1203 patients with a median of 98 (range: 21–309) were ...Brazil), and one from Europe ... See full document

... features of the 9 eligible studies are listed in Table ...Japan and 1 from Switzerland. Furthermore, 2 studies focused on pancreatic cancer, 4 focused on colorectal cancer, ... See full document

... formation of new blood vessels from the endothelium of existing vasculature, plays a pivotal role in tumor growth, progression and metastasis ...series of angiogenic factors are ... See full document

... In lung cancer, the high incidence of local aggressiveness and metastatic behavior is one of the main causes of cancer-related mortality and may lead to ... See full document

... Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death all over the world during the past few ...years. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) represents the ... See full document

... Publication and reporting bias also has to be ...only in full publications. Another potential source of bias is related to the method used to extrapolate the ...included in the article or ... See full document

... role in the survival of cancer cells in breast, prostate, ovary, and brain tissue ...survival of NSCLC cell [29]. Recently, a clinical study of p-AKT ... See full document

... purpose of undertaking this review was to determine whether chemotherapy plus BSC would improve survival, and to present all available evidence in a systematic, quantitative and ... See full document

... 16. Bury T, Barreto A, Daenen F, Barthelemy N, Ghaye B, Rigo P. Fluorine-18 deoxyglucose positron emission tomography for the detection of bone metastases in patients with ... See full document

... quality of life benefits, but overall 2- year survival rates for this group remain <15% ...rate of 19- 32% and a me- dian survival time of 7,9 to 11,3 months ...ence in ... See full document

... group with positive LVI, relative to the reference group. The impact of LVI on outcome was considered statistically significant if the 95% CI did not overlap with 1 and if ...estimate ... See full document

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

... response and survival for patients whose tumors express NY-ESO-1 were not the result of increased cytotoxicity, but rather were mediated through immunological ...stimulator of T-Cells ... See full document

... thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, is the third most common circulatory disorder in Western populations, and in the United States alone is responsible for an estimated 300,000 deaths annually ... See full document

... or in combination vitamin E had no significant effect on the risk of developing lung cancer in a setting of primary prevention: selenium, HR ...conducted in 35,533 men ... See full document

... involvement of mediastinal lymph nodes, as well as the detection of pleural effusion and/or pleural implants or distant metastatic disease, usually precludes radical surgical proce- ...selection ... See full document

... 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

... consecutive patients who underwent curative pulmonary resection at the Medical University of Gdansk (Gdansk, Poland) between 2000 and 2004, after obtaining approval from the institutional ... See full document

... (RCT) with voluntarily enrolled patients; (2) patients had histologically or cytologically confirmed NSCLC and had been diagnosed with multiple brain metastases using CT or MRI; ... See full document