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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lin Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5526452 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
International journal of cancer 20170621 6
Lung cancer is primarily caused by cigarette smoking and the leading cancer killer in the USA and across the world. Early detection of lung cancer by low-dose CT (LDCT) can reduce the mortality. However, LDCT dramatically increases the number of indeterminate pulmonary nodules (PNs), leading to overdiagnosis. Having a definitive preoperative diagnosis of malignant PNs is clinically important. Using microarray and droplet digital PCR to directly profile plasma miRNA expressions of 135 patients wi ...[more]