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SUBMITTER: Choi CH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2572070 | biostudies-literature | 2008
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choi Chel Hun CH Song Sang Yong SY Choi Jung-Joo JJ Park Young Ae YA Kang Heeseok H Kim Tae-Joong TJ Lee Jeong-Won JW Kim Byoung-Gie BG Lee Je-Ho JH Bae Duk-Soo DS
BMC cancer 20081011
<h4>Background</h4>The prediction of response to treatment would be valuable for managing cervical carcinoma with neoadjuvant chemotherapy.<h4>Methods</h4>To this end, the expression of VEGF was analyzed by immunohistochemistry using paraffin-embedded pre-treatment cervical biopsy tissues. This study included 29 patients with bulky IB to IIA cervical squamous cell carcinoma treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy.<h4>Results</h4>Fifteen (51.7%) of 29 patients were scored as VEGF-positive. Response ...[more]