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Circulating Interleukin-6 is Associated with Prognosis and Genetic Polymorphisms of MIR608 in Patients with Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
Annals of surgical oncology - 1 Aug 2018
Yang Pei-Wen, Huang Pei-Ming, Yong Luo-Sheng, Chang Ya-Han, Wu Chia-Wei, Hua Kuo-Tai, Hsieh Min-Shu, Lee Jang-Ming
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: No effective targeted therapy exists for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), the major cell type of esophageal cancer. The pleiotropic cytokine interleukin (IL)-6 is associated with adverse prognosis of some cancers, and the open reading frame of IL-6 contains an miR-608 microRNA-targeted site. We investigated the correlation of circulating IL-6 levels with prognosis and with the...
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