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M Harding1, J McAllister, G Hulks, D Vernon, R Monie, J Paul, S B Kaye.
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Pretreatment serum levels of neurone specific enolase (NSE) were measured in patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Median values were significantly higher in patients with extensive compared with limited stage disease (48 ng ml-1 v. 17 ng ml-1: P less than 0.001). Serial NSE levels paralleled the clinical response to treatment. In 37 patients with limited SCLC, receiving identical chemotherapy, the pretreatment NSE level was of prognostic significance: with an approximate reduction in median survival of 10% for each 5 ng ml-1 incremental rise in NSE (P = 0.004).Entities:
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Year: 1990 PMID: 2158809 PMCID: PMC1971357 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1990.134
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Cancer ISSN: 0007-0920 Impact factor: 7.640