1. Mean platelet volume provides beneficial diagnostic and prognostic information for patients with resectable gastric cancer
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Fei-Ran Gong, Zhong-Qi Mao, Min Tao, Wei Li, Xiao-Ming Shen, Lian Lian, Yan Zheng, Chong Zhou, You-You Xia, Shu-Guang Han, and Xiang-Li Li
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0301 basic medicine ,Oncology ,Cancer Research ,medicine.medical_specialty ,diagnosis ,Tumor resection ,Metastasis ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Stage (cooking) ,Mean platelet volume ,mean platelet volume ,Oncogene ,business.industry ,Proportional hazards model ,gastric cancer ,Cancer ,Articles ,medicine.disease ,Molecular medicine ,030104 developmental biology ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,prognosis ,business - Abstract
Gastric cancer is the fourth most frequent cancer and the second cause of cancer-related mortalities worldwide. Platelets play an important and multifaceted role in cancer progression. Elevated mean platelet volume (MPV) detected in peripheral blood has been identified in various types of cancer. In the present study, we investigated the application value of MPV in early diagnostic and prognostic prediction in patients with resectable gastric cancer. In total, 168 patients with resectable gastric cancer were included and separated into the gastric cancer and healthy control groups according to median pre-operatic MPV value (MPV low
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- 2016