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Prognostic Significance of C-Reactive Protein and Smoking in Patients with Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Treated with First-Line Palliative Chemotherapy 

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1 Prognostic Significance of C-Reactive Protein and Smoking in Patients with Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Treated with First-Line Palliative Chemotherapy  Andrea Koch, MD, Helena Fohlin, MSc, Sverre Sörenson, MD, PhD  Journal of Thoracic Oncology  Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages (March 2009) DOI: /JTO.0b013e c8 Copyright © 2009 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

2 FIGURE 1 Exclusions after identification of 313 patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) stage IIIB/IV treated with palliative first-line chemotherapy. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2009 4, DOI: ( /JTO.0b013e c8) Copyright © 2009 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

3 FIGURE 2 Kaplan-Meier survival curves when patients were grouped according to C-reactive protein (CRP) levels. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2009 4, DOI: ( /JTO.0b013e c8) Copyright © 2009 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

4 FIGURE 3 Kaplan-Meier survival curves for current smokers versus current nonsmokers at start of chemotherapy. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2009 4, DOI: ( /JTO.0b013e c8) Copyright © 2009 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions

5 FIGURE 4 Survival when patients were grouped by combining C-reactive protein (CRP) and smoking status at start of chemotherapy. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2009 4, DOI: ( /JTO.0b013e c8) Copyright © 2009 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Terms and Conditions


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