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Clinical significance of the Rb expression in adenocarcinoma of the lung.
Anticancer research - 1 Jan 2000
Sugio K, Tsukamoto S, Ushijima C, Yamazaki K, Kase S, Yamaguchi M, Ondo K, Yano T, Sugimachi K
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BACKGROUND: Altered retinoblastoma gene expression has been found in various types of cancers including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and some reports have shown it also to be associated with a poor clinical prognosis in NSCLC. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We evaluated the expression of Rb protein by immunohistochemistry in 90 patients with lung adenocarcinoma who underwent surgical resection and determined its...
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