Skip Navigation


Annals of Oncology Advance Access originally published online on June 21, 2005
Annals of Oncology 2005 16(11):1847-1848; doi:10.1093/annonc/mdi353
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
16/11/1847    most recent
mdi353v1
Right arrow E-letters: Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when E-letters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Santini, D.
Right arrow Articles by Tonini, G.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Santini, D.
Right arrow Articles by Tonini, G.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© 2005 European Society for Medical Oncology

Letter to the Editor

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression is not associated with prognosis in patients with radically resected ampullary carcinoma

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is known to be a potent angiogenic mitogen that plays an important role in tumor angiogenesis [1Go]. The correlation between the expression of VEGF and either metastasis or a poor prognosis has been reported for several cancers [2Go]. Kurahara and colleagues demonstrated that VEGF expression in patients with pancreatic head cancer is significantly associated with lymphatic metastasis and prognosis [3Go]. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

D. Santini1,*, B. Vincenzi1, G. Perrone2, C. Rabitti2, D. Borzomati3, S. Valeri3, R. Coppola3, P. Magistrelli4 and G. Tonini1

1 Department of Medical Oncology, 2 Department of Pathology 3 Department of Surgery, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome; 4 Department of Surgery, Catholic University of Rome, Italy

* E-mail: d.santini@unicampus.it


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?