Serum interleukin-6 level reflects the t
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Tsuneki Kinoshita; Hideki Ito; Chikao Miki
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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BACKGROUND. Interleukin (IL)-6 plays a central role as a differentiation and growth factor of tumor cells. It may be hypothesized that increased serum IL-6 derives from the tumor tissue, and that serum IL-6 levels consequently reflect the biologic characteristics of the tumor. The authors investigat