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Characterization and drug sensitivity profiling of primary malignant mesothelioma cells from pleural effusions

BACKGROUND: Patients with malignant mesothelioma have a poor prognosis and only 40% respond to first line treatment; a combination of pemetrexed and cisplatin or carboplatin. We used primary malignant mesothelioma cells and an ex vivo chemosensitivity assay with future purpose to predict best choice...

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Autores principales: Szulkin, Adam, Ötvös, Rita, Hillerdal, Carl-Olof, Celep, Aytekin, Yousef-Fadhel, Eviane, Skribek, Henriette, Hjerpe, Anders, Székely, László, Dobra, Katalin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4190467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25253633
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-14-709