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Serum C-reactive protein and risk of lung cancer: a case-control study.
Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) - 1 Mar 2013
Xu Ming, Zhu Minglin, Du Yinggan, Yan Bibo, Wang Qian, Wang Cong, Zhao Jinping
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Recent advances in lung cancer biology presuppose their inflammatory origin. Thus, CRP is regarded to play a key role in the development of lung cancer. Nevertheless, this interesting hypothesis and the role of inflammation in tumor biology remain complex and incompletely sure. Meanwhile, the association between CRP and risk of lung cancer was not stable in many published results. This study was conducted to...
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