Serum osteopontin in patients with lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: does the co-existence make the difference?

BACKGROUND: Osteopontin (OPN) is involved in cancer development and metastasis. Increased sputum OPN was detected in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS: We evaluated serum OPN levels in patients with lung cancer (LC) and/or COPD and aimed to determine OPN prognostic performance in...

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Pubblicato in:J Thorac Dis
Autori principali: Petta, Vasiliki, Loukides, Stelios, Kostikas, Konstantinos, Papaioannou, Andriana I., Papatheodorou, Georgios, Cholidou, Kyriaki, Tomos, Ioannis, Papiris, Spyridon, Koulouris, Nikolaos G., Bakakos, Petros
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: AME Publishing Company 2018
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5864658/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29607144
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.21037/jtd.2018.01.45
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