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Clinicopathological and prognostic significance of interleukin-8 expression and its relationship to KRAS mutation in lung adenocarcinoma.
British journal of cancer - 15 Apr 2014
Sunaga N, Kaira K, Tomizawa Y, Shimizu K, Imai H, Takahashi G, Kakegawa S, Ohtaki Y, Nagashima T, Kasahara N, Kawashima O, Hisada T, Saito R, Yamada M
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BACKGROUND: On the basis of our recent findings of oncogenic KRAS-induced interleukin-8 (IL-8) overexpression in non-small cell lung cancer, we assessed the clinicopathological and prognostic significances of IL-8 expression and its relationship to KRAS mutations in lung adenocarcinomas. METHODS: IL-8 expression was examined by quantitative RT-PCR using 136 of surgical specimens from lung adenocarcinoma patients....
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