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Role of inflammation gene polymorphisms on pain severity in lung cancer patients.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Oct 2009
Reyes-Gibby Cielito C, Spitz Margaret R, Yennurajalingam Sriram, Swartz Michael, Gu Jian, Wu Xifeng, Bruera Eduardo, Shete Sanjay
Abstract excerpt
Many of the same inflammatory factors that promote tumor growth are also hypothesized to function as pain modulators. There is substantial interindividual variation in pain severity in cancer patients. Therefore, we evaluated 59 single nucleotide polymorphisms in 37 inflammation genes in newly diagnosed non-Hispanic Caucasian lung cancer patients (n = 667) and assessed their association with pain severity....
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