Preoperative serum pyridinoline cross-linked carboxy-terminal telopeptide of type I collagen level predicts postoperative distant metastasis in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer.

Yumi Tanaka,Tatsuya Yoshimasu,Shoji Oura,Yoshimitsu Hirai,Mitsumasa Kawago,Masako Ikeda,Yoshitaka Okamura

Preoperative serum pyridinoline cross-linked carboxy-terminal telopeptide of type I collagen level predicts postoperative distant metastasis in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer.

2013

Yumi Tanaka
Tatsuya Yoshimasu
Shoji Oura
Yoshimitsu Hirai
Mitsumasa Kawago
Masako Ikeda
Yoshitaka Okamura

OBJECTIVES: To examine the relationship between preoperative serum pyridinoline cross-linked carboxy-terminal telopeptide of type I collagen (I-CTP) levels and postoperative distant metastasis in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Keywords:

Carcinoembryonic antigen
Pyridinoline
Surgery
General surgery
Metastasis
Type I collagen
N-terminal telopeptide
Lung cancer
Medicine
in patient
distant metastasis
non small cell

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