Prognostic influence of pre-operative C-reactive protein in node-negative breast cancer patients.

The importance of inflammation is increasingly noticed in cancer. The aim of this study was to analyze the prognostic influence of pre-operative serum C-reactive protein (CRP) in a cohort of 148 lymph node-negative breast cancer patients. The prognostic significance of CRP level for disease-free sur...

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Main Authors: Isabel Sicking, Karolina Edlund, Eva Wesbuer, Veronika Weyer, Marco J Battista, Antje Lebrecht, Christine Solbach, Marianna Grinberg, Johannes Lotz, Gerald Hoffmann, Jörg Rahnenführer, Jan G Hengstler, Marcus Schmidt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4207815?pdf=render