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Correlation of plasma level and immunohistochemical expression of vascular endothelial growth factor in patients with advanced colorectal cancer.

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2003

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Noritaka Minagawa, Yoshifumi Nakayama, Keiji Hirata, Koji Onitsuka, Yuzuru Inoue, Naoki Nagata, Hideaki Itoh
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Abstract

Measuring plasma levels of VEGF is a good predictor of the immunohistochemical expression of VEGF in patients with advanced colorectal cancer, and may be a better indicator for tumor VEGF levels, since plasma levels can be measured much more quickly than expression levels.