Browsing by Subject "Neutrophil"
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The complex pathogenesis of bacteremia: From antimicrobial clearance mechanisms to the genetic background of the host
(2014)Bacteremia develops when bacteria manage to escape the host immune mechanisms or when the otherwise well-orchestrated immune response fails to control bacterial spread due to inherent or acquired immune defects that are ...
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Dose-dense sequential adjuvant chemotherapy followed, as indicated, by trastuzumab for one year in patients with early breast cancer: First report at 5-year median follow-up of a Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group randomized phase III trial
(2014)Background: Dose-dense sequential chemotherapy including anthracyclines and taxanes has been established in the adjuvant setting of high-risk operable breast cancer. However, the preferable taxane and optimal schedule of ...
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The neutrophil, not the tumor: Serum CA 15-3 elevation as a result of granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor-induced neutrophil MUC1 overexpression and neutrophilia in patients with breast carcinoma receiving adjuvant chemotherapy
(2004)BACKGROUND. Patients with resected breast carcinoma who received granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)-supported adjuvant chemotherapy exhibited an increase in their serum CA 15-3 levels. The authors investigated ...