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    Thoracic Cancer: Volume 6, Issue 4

    i-ii, 379-556
    July 2015
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  • Pages: i-ii
  • First Published: 02 July 2015

INVITED REVIEWS

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Clinical experiences with molecular targeted therapy in lung cancer in China

Yan Wang,  Yan Sun, 
  • Pages: 379-384
  • First Published: 22 April 2015
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Early detection of lung cancer: Low-dose computed tomography screening in China

Shi-Jun Zhao,  Ning Wu, 
  • Pages: 385-389
  • First Published: 22 April 2015

MINI REVIEW

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Role of acetylcholinesterase in lung cancer

Hui-Jun Xi,  Ren-Pei Wu,  Jing-Jing Liu,  Ling-Juan Zhang,  Zhao-Shen Li, 
  • Pages: 390-398
  • First Published: 20 March 2015

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

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Role of radiotherapy in treating patients with primary malignant mediastinal non-seminomatous germ cell tumor: A 21-year experience at a single institution

Jianyang Wang,  Nan Bi,  Xiaozhen Wang,  Zhouguang Hui,  Jun Liang,  Jima Lv,  Zongmei Zhou,  Qin Fu Feng,  Zefen Xiao,  Dongfu Chen,  Hongxing Zhang,  Weibo Yin,  Luhua Wang, 
  • Pages: 399-406
  • First Published: 15 October 2014
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Treatment and prognostic analysis of patients with leptomeningeal metastases from non-small cell lung cancer

Qinghua Xu,  Xiu Chen,  Danwen Qian,  Yongsheng Wang,  Shuyan Meng,  Hui Liu,  Caicun Zhou, 
  • Pages: 407-412
  • First Published: 08 October 2014
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Clinicopathological characteristics and outcomes of ROS1-rearranged patients with lung adenocarcinoma without EGFR, KRAS mutations and ALK rearrangements

Shafei Wu,  Jinghui Wang,  Lijuan Zhou,  Dan Su,  Yuanyuan Liu,  Xiaolong Liang,  Shucai Zhang,  Xuan Zeng, 
  • Pages: 413-420
  • First Published: 15 October 2014
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Loss expression of micro ribonucleic acid (miRNA)-200c induces adverse post-surgical prognosis of advanced stage non-small cell lung carcinoma and its potential relationship with ETAR messenger RNA

Jinpeng Zhao,  Yandong Zhao,  Zizong Wang,  Yunpeng Xuan,  Yiren Luo,  Wenjie Jiao, 
  • Pages: 421-426
  • First Published: 16 October 2014
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Overexpression of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E-binding protein 1 induces the alteration of immune status in H1299 lung cancer cells

Lei Li,  Li Zhang,  Dan Liu,  Yue Cheng,  Yu-ting Jing,  He Yu,  Ping Zhou,  Juan Song,  Wei-min Li, 
  • Pages: 427-432
  • First Published: 22 October 2014
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Conflicting or complementary role of computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET)/CT in the assessment of thymic cancer and thymoma: our experience and literature review

Elena Scagliori,  Laura Evangelista,  Annalori Panunzio,  Fiorella Calabrese,  Nazarena Nannini,  Roberta Polverosi,  Fabio Pomerri, 
  • Pages: 433-442
  • First Published: 22 October 2014
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Cardiopulmonary exercise testing screening and pre-operative pulmonary rehabilitation reduce postoperative complications and improve fast-track recovery after lung cancer surgery: A study for 342 cases

Ke Gao,  Peng-ming Yu,  Jian-hua Su,  Cheng-qi He,  Lun-xu Liu,  Yu-bin Zhou,  Qiang Pu,  Guo-wei Che, 
  • Pages: 443-449
  • First Published: 22 December 2014
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Basic fibroblast growth factor shows prognostic impact on survival in operable non-small cell lung cancer patients

Ming-ming Hu,  Ying Hu,  Guang-kuo Gao,  Yi Han,  Guang-li Shi,  Bao-lan Li, 
  • Pages: 450-457
  • First Published: 23 December 2014
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Effect of inhibition proliferation in human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells by cytokine-induced killer cells

Dengrui Li,  Sumin Guo,  Hui Li,  Guiyun Zhu,  Li Gao,  Xin Xin,  Dandan Yan,  Xiuwu Li,  Shujun Geng,  Hongwei Hou,  Yonghui Yang, 
  • Pages: 458-463
  • First Published: 29 December 2014
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Utilization of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer and Wang's nodal map for the identification of mediastinum and hilar lymph nodes

Yang Xia,  Yun Ma,  Sixto Arias,  Hans Lee,  Ko-Pen Wang, 
  • Pages: 464-468
  • First Published: 08 January 2015
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Diagnostic value of protein chips constructed by lung-cancer-associated markers selected by the T7 phage display library

Hong-Mei Li,  Kang Guo,  Zhuang Yu,  Rui Feng,  Ping Xu, 
  • Pages: 469-474
  • First Published: 08 January 2015
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The Prevalence and clinical characteristics of primary Sjogren's syndrome patients with lung cancer: An analysis of ten cases in China and literature review

Yan Xu,  Yunyun Fei,  Wei Zhong,  Li Zhang,  Jing Zhao,  Longyun Li,  Mengzhao Wang, 
  • Pages: 475-479
  • First Published: 08 January 2015
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Analysis of lung tumor initiation and progression in transgenic mice for Cre-inducible overexpression of Cul4A gene

Yang Wang,  Zhidong Xu,  Jian-Hua Mao,  Ming-Szu Hung,  David Hsieh,  Alfred Au,  David M. Jablons,  Liang You, 
  • Pages: 480-487
  • First Published: 08 June 2015
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Novel link between prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and cholinergic signaling in lung cancer: The role of c-Jun in PGE2-induced α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor expression and tumor cell proliferation

XiaoRong Zhong,  Yu Fan,  Jeffrey D. Ritzenthaler,  WenJing Zhang,  Ke Wang,  QingHua Zhou,  Jesse Roman, 
  • Pages: 488-500
  • First Published: 14 January 2015
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Mining featured micro ribonucleic acids associated with lung cancer based on bioinformatics

Lin Su,  Na Li,  Xueyun Huo, 
  • Pages: 501-507
  • First Published: 07 October 2014
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Potential anti-cancer effect of curcumin in human lung squamous cell carcinoma

Wei Zhao,  Yan Wang,  Ying Wang,  Nan Gao,  Zhifeng Han,  Haixiang Yu, 
  • Pages: 508-516
  • First Published: 26 January 2015
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Diagnostic yield of non-guided flexible bronchoscopy for peripheral pulmonary neoplasia

Catherine Labbé,  Stéphane Beaudoin,  Simon Martel,  Antoine Delage,  Philippe Joubert,  Christine Drapeau,  Steeve Provencher, 
  • Pages: 517-523
  • First Published: 22 January 2015
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Micro ribonucleic acid-93 promotes proliferation and migration of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by targeting disabled 2

Chang Li,  Cheng Ding,  Tengfei Chen,  Jun Chen,  Zhenlei Xu,  Zhe Lei,  Chun Xu,  Jun Zhao, 
  • Pages: 524-533
  • First Published: 27 February 2015
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Circulating PD-L1 in NSCLC patients and the correlation between the level of PD-L1 expression and the clinical characteristics

Jie Zhang,  Jing Gao,  Yanyan Li,  Jun Nie,  Ling Dai,  Weiheng Hu,  Xiaoling Chen,  Jindi Han,  Xiangjuan Ma,  Guangming Tian,  Di Wu,  Lin Shen,  Jian Fang, 
  • Pages: 534-538
  • First Published: 05 March 2015

BRIEF REPORT

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New agent to treat advanced or metastasized thyroid cancer, its efficacy, safety, and mechanism

Huan-gao Zhu,  Jun-yu Zhao,  Rui Zhang,  Lin Liao,  Jian-jun Dong, 
  • Pages: 539-543
  • First Published: 17 February 2015

CASE REPORTS

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Four-year natural clinical course of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma without therapy

Akira Haro,  Genkichi Saitoh,  Sadafumi Tamiya,  Akira Nagashima, 
  • Pages: 544-547
  • First Published: 16 October 2014
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Metastases of basal-like breast invasive ductal carcinoma to the endometrium: A case report and review of the literature

Zhijun Huo,  Yongsheng Gao,  Wenshu Zuo,  Gang Zheng,  Ronghua Kong, 
  • Pages: 548-552
  • First Published: 20 October 2014

TECHNICAL NOTE

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Preoperative computed tomography-guided percutaneous localization of ground glass pulmonary opacity with polylactic acid injection

Mu Hu,  Xiuyi Zhi,  Jian Zhang, 
  • Pages: 553-556
  • First Published: 17 April 2015