- Aberrant expression of melanoma-associated antigen-D2 serves as a prognostic indicator of hepatocellular carcinoma outcome following curative hepatectomy.
Aberrant expression of melanoma-associated antigen-D2 serves as a prognostic indicator of hepatocellular carcinoma outcome following curative hepatectomy.
Oncology letters (2015-02-11)
Ryoji Hashimoto, Mitsuro Kanda, Hideki Takami, Dai Shimizu, Hisaharu Oya, Soki Hibino, Yukiyasu Okamura, Suguru Yamada, Tsutomu Fujii, Goro Nakayama, Hiroyuki Sugimoto, Masahiko Koike, Shuji Nomoto, Michitaka Fujiwara, Yasuhiro Kodera
PMID25663882
RÉSUMÉ
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common cause of cancer-related mortality globally. Since the prognosis of advanced HCC patients is extremely poor, the development of novel molecular targets for diagnosis and therapy is urgently required. In the present study, the expression of the melanoma-associated antigen-D2 (