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ArticleAnnals of cardiothoracic surgery2012

Biomarkers and prognostic factors for mesothelioma.

Harvey I Pass

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Article in Annals of cardiothoracic surgery, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. An Evaluation Into the Robustness of Grading of Pleural Mesothelioma Outside of Specialist Centres.APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica · 2025
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  6. Malignant pleural mesothelioma: clinical experience and prognostic value of derived neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and PD-L1 expression.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2021
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  12. Hyponatraemia is a predictor of clinical outcome for malignant pleural mesothelioma.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2015
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  14. Reproducibility of histological subtyping of malignant pleural mesothelioma.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2014
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  15. Supplementary prognostic variables for pleural mesothelioma: a report from the IASLC staging committee.Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer · 2014
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  16. Expression and significance of miRNA-21 and BTG2 in lung cancer.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Harvey I PassStephen E. Banner Professor of Thoracic Oncology, Vice-Chair Research, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division Chief, General Thoracic Surgery, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY 10016, USA.

Funding

The North American Mesothelioma ConsortiumU01CA111295 · NCI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI HUFLEJT, MARGARET ELISABETH, PASS, HARVEY IRA · 2005 to 2016
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NCI NIH HHS U01 CA111295
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID23977535
PMCPMC3741796

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