## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Cyclooxygenases regulate the production of prostaglandins and play a role in tumor development and progression. The authors investigated the prognostic impact of expression of the cyclooxygenase (COX) isoforms, COX‐1 and COX‐2, on disease‐free survival and progression‐fre
Elevated expression of cyclooxygenase-2 is a negative prognostic factor for overall survival in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
✍ Scribed by Klaus Jürgen Schmitz; Hauke Lang; Jeremias Wohlschlaeger; Henning Reis; Georgios Charalambos Sotiropoulos; Kurt Werner Schmid; Hideo Andreas Baba
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 275 KB
- Volume
- 450
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1432-2307
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