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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Mancini R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3138755 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20110718 7
Malignant pleural effusions (MPEs) could represent an excellent source to culture a wide variety of cancer cells from different donors. In this study, we set up culture conditions for cancer cells deriving from MPEs of several patients affected by the most frequent form of lung cancer, namely the subset of non small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) classified as Lung Adenocarcinomas (AdenoCa) which account for approximately 40% of lung cancer cases. AdenoCa malignant pleural effusions gave rise to in v ...[more]