Vascular endothelial growth factor expression promotes the growth of breast cancer brain metastases in nude mice
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Clinical & Experimental Metastasis
- Vol. 21 (2), 107-118
- https://doi.org/10.1023/b:clin.0000024761.00373.55
Abstract
Patients with breast cancer brain metastases cannot be cured and have a poor prognosis, with a median survival time of six months after diagnosis, despite developments in diagnostic and therapeutic...This publication has 61 references indexed in Scilit:
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