Elevated serum level of sialylated glycoprotein KL-6 predicts a poor prognosis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with gefitinib.

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Published in Lung Cancer on August 31, 2007

Authors

Yoshiro Fujiwara1, Katsuyuki Kiura, Shinichi Toyooka, Katsuyuki Hotta, Masahiro Tabata, Nagio Takigawa, Junichi Soh, Yasushi Tanimoto, Arihiko Kanehiro, Katsuya Kato, Hiroshi Date, Mitsune Tanimoto

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Hematology, Oncology and Respiratory Medicine, Okayama University Medical Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences. 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.

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