High systemic IL-6 is associated with worse prognosis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer

• Estela Maria Silva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Estela Maria Silva, Vânia Sammartino Mariano

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Teaching and Research Institute, Barretos Cancer Hospital–Pio XII Foundation, Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Vânia Sammartino Mariano ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Estela Maria Silva, Vânia Sammartino Mariano

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Teaching and Research Institute, Barretos Cancer Hospital–Pio XII Foundation, Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5399-5676

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• Paula Roberta Aguiar Pastrez,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Teaching and Research Institute, Barretos Cancer Hospital–Pio XII Foundation, Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Miguel Cordoba Pinto,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Chest, Barretos Cancer Hospital–Pio XII Foundation, Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• António Gil Castro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Institute of Life and Health Sciences (ICVS), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS / 3B's—Associated Laboratory to the Government of Portugal, Braga / Guimarães, Portugal

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• Kari Juhani Syrjanen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Research—Biohit Oyj, Helsinki, Finland

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• Adhemar Longatto-Filho

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: longatto16@hotmail.com

  Affiliations Teaching and Research Institute, Barretos Cancer Hospital–Pio XII Foundation, Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Research Institute of Life and Health Sciences (ICVS), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS / 3B's—Associated Laboratory to the Government of Portugal, Braga / Guimarães, Portugal, Medical Laboratory of Medical Investigation (LIM) 14, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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