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    Trajectories of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratios during neoadjuvant chemotherapy correlate with short- and long-term outcomes in gastric cancer: a group-based trajectory analysis

    Systemic inflammatory factors can predict the survival prognosis of gastric cancer (GC) patients after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT). However, whether longitudinal changes in systemic inflammatory factors ar...

    Hua-Long Zheng, Fu-Hai Wang, Ling-Kang Zhang, ** Li, Chao-Hui Zheng in BMC Cancer (2024)

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    IFI44L is a novel tumor suppressor in human hepatocellular carcinoma affecting cancer stemness, metastasis, and drug resistance via regulating met/Src signaling pathway

    Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. The disease recurrent rate is relatively high resulted in poor 5-year survival in advanced HCC. Cancer stem cells (...

    Wei-Chieh Huang, Shiao-Lin Tung, Yao-Li Chen, Po-Ming Chen, Pei-Yi Chu in BMC Cancer (2018)

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    The effects of the location of cancer stem cell marker CD133 on the prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma patients

    CD133 (prominin-1) is widely believed to be a cancer stem cell marker in various solid tumor types, and CD133 has been correlated with tumor-initiating capacity. Recently, the nuclear location of CD133 express...

    Yao-Li Chen, **-Yi Lin, Ying-Zi Ming, Wei-Chieh Huang, Rong-Fu Chen in BMC Cancer (2017)

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    Microvascular invasion has limited clinical values in hepatocellular carcinoma patients at Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) stages 0 or B

    Microvascular invasion (MVI) is recognized as a prognostic factor associated with poor outcome in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients after curative resection. It remains unclear, however, whether MVI can ...

    Cheng Huang, **ao-Dong Zhu, Yuan Ji, Guang-Yu Ding, Guo-Ming Shi in BMC Cancer (2017)

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    Impact of clinical parameters and systemic inflammatory status on epidermal growth factor receptor-mutant non-small cell lung cancer patients readministration with epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors

    Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) readministration to lung cancer patients is common owing to the few options available. Impact of clinical factors on prognosis of EGFR-mu...

    Yu-Mu Chen, Chien-Hao Lai, Kun-Ming Rau, Cheng-Hua Huang, Huang-Chih Chang in BMC Cancer (2016)

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    The efficacy of iodine-125 permanent brachytherapy versus intensity-modulated radiation for inoperable salivary gland malignancies: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial

    Radiation therapy is the method of choice for subjects with inoperable salivary gland malignancies. I-125 brachytherapy, delivering a high radiation dose to a tumor but sparing surrounding normal tissues, is s...

    Shu-Ming Liu, Hai-Bo Wang, Yan Sun, Yan Shi, Jie Zhang, Ming-Wei Huang in BMC Cancer (2016)

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    Cholelithiasis and the risk of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: a meta-analysis of observational studies

    The etiological factor for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is not clear. Although it has been widely accepted that intrahepatic biliary tree stone is associated with increased risk of ICC, the role of ex...

    Hao Cai, Wen-Tao Kong, Chao-Bo Chen, Guo-Ming Shi, Cheng Huang, Ying-Hao Shen in BMC Cancer (2015)

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    An increased risk of epithelial ovarian cancer in Taiwanese women with a new surgico-pathological diagnosis of endometriosis

    Epidemiological evidence of relationships between endometriosis and epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) has been obtained mainly from Western countries. Our goal was to determine the risk of EOC due to endometrios...

    Kuan-Chin Wang, Wen-Hsun Chang, Wen-Ling Lee, Nicole Huang, Hsin-Yi Huang in BMC Cancer (2014)

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    Breast cancer stage at diagnosis and area-based socioeconomic status: a multicenter 10-year retrospective clinical epidemiological study in China

    Although socioeconomic status (SES) has been focused on as a key determinant of cancer stage at diagosis in western countries, there has been no systemic study on the relationship of SES and breast cancer stag...

    Qiong Wang, **g Li, Shan Zheng, Jia-Yuan Li, Yi Pang, Rong Huang in BMC Cancer (2012)