Docetaxel; Squamous cell carcinoma; Radiotherapy; Microvessel density; Apoptosis

Effects of docetaxel plus three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy on microvessel density and apoptosis expression in local advanced squamous non-small-cell lung cancer

X. J. Zhai, Cheng, H. R., Long, H. L., Mao, W. K., Cao, L., Xiao, B. R., and Li, R. Q., Effects of docetaxel plus three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy on microvessel density and apoptosis expression in local advanced squamous non-small-cell lung cancer, vol. 14, pp. 5399-5406, 2015.

We examined the effects of weekly single-agent docetaxel plus three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT) on apoptotic index (AI) and microvessel density (MVD) in local advanced non-small-cell lung squamous cancer patients and analyzed the correlation of MVD, AI, and 50% tumor shrinkage time (T0.5) The molecular mechanism of docetaxel radiosensitization was investigated.

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