Prolonged post‑recurrence survival following pleurectomy/decortication for malignant pleural mesothelioma
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CD26 overexpression is associated with prolonged survival and enhanced chemosensitivity in malignant pleural mesothelioma.
PURPOSE Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an aggressive and therapy-resistant neoplasm arising from the pleural mesothelial cells, without established indicators to predict responsiveness to chemotherapy. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Our study involving 79 MPM patients showed that 73.4% of MPM expressed CD26 on cell membrane. RESULTS The majority of epithelioid and biphasic types of MPM expres...
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عنوان ژورنال: Oncology Letters
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1792-1074,1792-1082
DOI: 10.3892/ol.2019.9979