The role of the tumor-microenvironment in lung cancer-metastasis and its relationship to potential therapeutic targets

SL Wood, M Pernemalm, PA Crosbie… - Cancer treatment …, 2014 - Elsevier
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for> 80% of lung cancer cases and currently
has an overall five-year survival rate of only 15%. Patients presenting with advanced stage …

Matrix metalloproteinases as novel biomarker s and potential therapeutic targets in human cancer

R Roy, J Yang, MA Moses - Journal of clinical oncology, 2009 - ascopubs.org
The matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) family of enzymes is comprised of critically important
extracellular matrix remodeling proteases whose activity has been implicated in a number of …

Matrix metalloproteinases: their functional role in lung cancer

N Merchant, GP Nagaraju, B Rajitha… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Lung malignancy is the foremost cause of cancer-related deaths globally and is frequently
related to long-term tobacco smoking. Recent studies reveal that the expression of matrix …

[HTML][HTML] A genome-wide association study of lung cancer identifies a region of chromosome 5p15 associated with risk for adenocarcinoma

MT Landi, N Chatterjee, K Yu, LR Goldin… - The american journal of …, 2009 - cell.com
Three genetic loci for lung cancer risk have been identified by genome-wide association
studies (GWAS), but inherited susceptibility to specific histologic types of lung cancer is not …

Previous lung diseases and lung cancer risk: a pooled analysis from the International Lung Cancer Consortium

DR Brenner, P Boffetta, EJ Duell… - American journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
To clarify the role of previous lung diseases (chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia,
and tuberculosis) in the development of lung cancer, the authors conducted a pooled …

Influence of common genetic variation on lung cancer risk: meta-analysis of 14 900 cases and 29 485 controls

MN Timofeeva, RJ Hung, T Rafnar… - Human molecular …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Recent genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified common genetic variants
at 5p15. 33, 6p21–6p22 and 15q25. 1 associated with lung cancer risk. Several other …

Key molecular mechanisms in lung cancer invasion and metastasis: a comprehensive review

F Perlikos, KJ Harrington, KN Syrigos - Critical reviews in oncology …, 2013 - Elsevier
Lung cancer remains one of the most common and malignant cancers worldwide. It is most
often diagnosed at late stages, when it has already presented local invasion and distal …

S100A4 calcium-binding protein is key player in tumor progression and metastasis: preclinical and clinical evidence

SK Mishra, HR Siddique, M Saleem - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2012 - Springer
The fatality of cancer is mainly bestowed to the property of otherwise benign tumor cells to
become malignant and invade surrounding tissues by circumventing normal tissue barriers …

The genetic and epigenetic footprint in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and familial pulmonary fibrosis: a state-of-the-art review

C Tirelli, C Pesenti, M Miozzo, M Mondoni, L Fontana… - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a rare disease of the lung with a largely unknown
etiology and a poor prognosis. Intriguingly, forms of familial pulmonary fibrosis (FPF) have …

Replication of lung cancer susceptibility loci at chromosomes 15q25, 5p15, and 6p21: a pooled analysis from the International Lung Cancer Consortium

T Truong, RJ Hung, CI Amos, X Wu… - Journal of the …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background Genome-wide association studies have identified three chromosomal regions
at 15q25, 5p15, and 6p21 as being associated with the risk of lung cancer. To confirm these …