Open AccessPhosphatase and tensin homolog protein may be linked to lymph node metastasis and tumor node metastasis staging in nonsmall cell lung cancer
Author(s) -
Zhiyong Ji,
Haifeng Li,
Ling Yu,
Yan-Wei Rao,
Mingli Sun,
Xinwei Wang,
Yanlin Zhang
Publication year - 2018
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 - 10.4103/0973-1482.165865
Subject(s) - pten , tensin , medicine , oncology , cochrane library , stage (stratigraphy) , metastasis , meta analysis , odds ratio , lung cancer , pathological staging , cancer , biology , pi3k/akt/mtor pathway , apoptosis , paleontology , biochemistry
This study aims to investigate the correlations of positive rate of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) protein with lymph node metastasis (LNM) and tumor node metastasis (TNM) staging of nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients by conducted a meta-analysis.