Myeloid Clusters Are Associated with a Pro-Metastatic Environment and Poor Prognosis in Smoking-Related Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Wang Zhang; Sumanta K. Pal; Xueli Liu; Chunmei Yang; Sachin Allahabadi; Shaira Bhanji; Robert A. Figlin; Hua Yu; Karen L. Reckamp

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065121

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Myeloid Clusters Are Associated with a Pro-Metastatic Environment and Poor Prognosis in Smoking-Related Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Wang Zhang,

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunology, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America
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Sumanta K. Pal,

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America
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Xueli Liu,

Affiliation Department of Information Sciences, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America
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Chunmei Yang,

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunology, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America
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Sachin Allahabadi,

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Shaira Bhanji,

Affiliation Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Robert A. Figlin,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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Hua Yu ,

* E-mail: kreckamp@coh.org (KLR) (HY); hyu@coh.org (HY) (KR)

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunology, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America
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Karen L. Reckamp

* E-mail: kreckamp@coh.org (KLR) (HY); hyu@coh.org (HY) (KR)

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America
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Myeloid Clusters Are Associated with a Pro-Metastatic Environment and Poor Prognosis in Smoking-Related Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Wang Zhang,
Sumanta K. Pal,
Xueli Liu,
Chunmei Yang,
Sachin Allahabadi,
Shaira Bhanji,
Robert A. Figlin,
Hua Yu,
Karen L. Reckamp

Published: May 24, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065121

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