
Clinical significance of preoperative serum tumor markers in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Author(s) -
Hongguang Zhao,
Wenhu Chen,
Jie Wu,
Lifang Wang,
Weimin Mao
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.145863
Subject(s) - medicine , carcinoembryonic antigen , metastasis , oncology , receiver operating characteristic , hazard ratio , grading (engineering) , lymph node , proportional hazards model , gastroenterology , cancer , confidence interval , civil engineering , engineering
Serum tumor markers (TMs) were seldom reported in esophageal carcinoma (ESCC), and the results were still unsatisfactory.