D-Dimer Can Serve as a Prognostic and Predictive Biomarker for Metastatic Gastric Cancer Treated by Chemotherapy

Systemic activation of hemostasis and thrombosis has been implicated in tumor progression and metastasis. D-dimer has been used as an indicator for the thrombosis. Here, we investigated the role of the activation of coagulation in patients with metastatic gastric cancer by measuring D-dimer level.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Go, Se-Il, Lee, Min Jeong, Lee, Won Sup, Choi, Hye Jung, Lee, Un Seok, Kim, Rock Bum, Kang, Myoung Hee, Kim, Hoon-Gu, Lee, Gyeong-Won, Kang, Jung Hun, Lee, Jeong-Hee, Kim, Sun Joo
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Health 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4554111/