STAT3 in Cancer-Friend or Foe?

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Published in Cancers (Basel) on July 03, 2014

Authors

Hai-Feng Zhang1, Raymond Lai2

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada. haifeng4@ualberta.ca.
2: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada. rlai@ualberta.ca.

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