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Polymorphisms of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors and survival of lung cancer and upper aero-digestive tract cancers.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Sept 2014
Yang Ying, Burke Rita V, Jeon Christie Y, Chang Shen-Chih, Chang Po-Yin, Morgenstern Hal, Tashkin Donald P, Mao Jenny, Cozen Wendy, Mack Thomas M, Rao Jianyu, Zhang Zuo-Feng
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BACKGROUND: Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) are transcriptional factors involved in several biological processes such as inflammation, cancer growth, progression and apoptosis that are important in lung and upper aero-digestive tract (UADT) cancer outcomes. Nonetheless, there are no published studies of the relationship between PPARs gene polymorphisms and survival of patients with lung cancer...
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