Higher IGFBP-1 to IGF-1 serum ratio predicts unfavourable survival in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma
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- 作者：Xinwei Feng ; Jianhua Lin ; Shan Xing ; Wanli Liu ; Ge Zhang
- 关键词：Insulin ; like growth factor binding protein 1 ; Insulin ; like growth factor 1 ; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma ; Clinical prognosis
- 刊名：BMC Cancer
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1304KB
- 刊物主题：Cancer Research; Oncology; Surgical Oncology; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Biomedicine, general; Medicine/Public Health, general;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2407
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundThe insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system plays an important role in the development and progression of cancer. However, little is known about the expression of the IGF system components and their clinicopathological significance and prognostic value in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).