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01-06-2006 | Original Article
CXCL12-3′A Polymorphism and lung cancer metastases protection: new perspectives in immunotherapy?
Authors:
Ana Coelho, Carmen Calçada, Raquel Catarino, Daniela Pinto, Graça Fonseca, Rui Medeiros
Published in:
Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy
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Issue 6/2006
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Excerpt
Lung cancer remains a major worldwide health problem, being the most common form of cancer in the world, both in terms of incidence, 12.3% of all cancers (with an estimated 1.2 million new cases in 2000), and mortality (1.1 million deaths in 2000), representing 17.8% of the total number of deaths caused by cancer. More than half of the new cases occur in more developed countries (52%), with incidence rates lower in women (11.1 per 1,000,000), than in men (34.9 per 1,000,000) [
17]. …