A novel intraperitoneal metastatic xenograft mouse model for survival outcome assessment of esophageal adenocarcinoma.

Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) has become the dominant type of esophageal cancer in United States. The 5-year survival rate of EAC is below 20% and most patients present with locally advanced or widespread metastatic disease, where current treatment is largely ineffective. Therefore, new therapeuti...

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Main Authors: Md Sazzad Hassan, Niranjan Awasthi, Jun Li, Margaret A Schwarz, Roderich E Schwarz, Urs von Holzen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5321464?pdf=render