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Preoperative Platelet Count Associates with Survival and Distant Metastasis in Surgically Resected Colorectal Cancer Patients

Shaogui Wan, Yinzhi Lai, Ronald E. Myers, Bingshan Li, Terry Hyslop, Jack London, Devjani Chatterjee, Juan Palazzo, Ashlie L. Burkart, Kejin Zhang,

Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer · 2013 · 64 citations · 25 references

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Cancer statistics, 2011

Rebecca L. Siegel, Elizabeth Ward, Otis W. Brawley et al. · CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians · 2011 · 4.1K citations · Full text

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Platelets and fibrin(ogen) increase metastatic potential by impeding natural killer cell–mediated elimination of tumor cells

Joseph S. Palumbo, Kathryn E. Talmage, Jessica V. Massari et al. · Blood · 2004 · 990 citations · Full text

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Lysis of tumor cells by natural killer cells in mice is impeded by platelets.

Bernhard Nieswandt, Michael Häfner, Bernd Echtenacher et al. · PubMed · 1999 · 838 citations

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Paraneoplastic Thrombocytosis in Ovarian Cancer

Rebecca L. Stone, Alpa M. Nick, Iain A. McNeish et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2012 · 822 citations · Full text

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Constitutive production and thrombin-induced release of vascular endothelial growth factor by human megakaryocytes and platelets

Robert Möhle, David Green, Malcolm A.S. Moore et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1997 · 718 citations

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