• Clinical significance of disseminated tumour cells in non-small cell lung cancer 

      Rud, Ane Kristine Kongsgaard; Borgen, Elin; Mælandsmo, Gunhild; Flatmark, Kjersti; Le, Hang Ngoc Thi; Josefsen, Dag; Solvoll, Ingjerd; Schirmer, Cecilie; Helland, Åslaug; Jørgensen, Lars Hilmar; Brustugun, Odd Terje; Fodstad, Øystein; Boye, Kjetil (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013-08-13)
      Background: Early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients have a high risk of disease relapse despite curatively intended surgical resection, and the detection of tumour cells in the bone marrow could be one method of determining the presence of the disseminated disease in its early stages.<p> <p>Methods: Bone marrow aspirates were collected from 296 patients at the time of surgery, and ...
    • Detection of disseminated tumor cells in lymph nodes from patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer 

      Rud, Ane Kristine Kongsgaard; Pedersen, Kjetil Boye; Fodstad, Øystein; Juell, Siri; Jørgensen, Lars Hilmar; Solberg, Steinar; Helland, Åslaug; Brustugun, Odd Terje; Mælandsmo, Gunhild (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-06-17)
      Background: The regional lymph node involvement is a major prognostic factor in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) undergoing surgical resection. Disease relapse is common, suggesting that early disseminated disease is already present in the regional lymph nodes at the time of surgery, and that the current nodal staging classification might be suboptimal. Early detection of disseminated ...
    • Expression of S100A4, ephrin-A1 and osteopontin in non-small cell lung cancer 

      Rud, Ane Kristine Kongsgaard; Lund-Iversen, Marius; Berge, Gisle; Brustugun, Odd Terje; Solberg, Steinar; Mælandsmo, Gunhild; Pedersen, Kjetil Boye (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The metastasis-promoting protein S100A4 induces expression of ephrin-A1 and osteopontin in osteosarcoma cell lines. The aim of this study was to investigate S100A4-mediated stimulation of ephrin-A1 and osteopontin in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell lines, and to characterize the expression of these biomarkers in primary tumor tissue from NSCLC patients. Four NSCLC cell lines were treated ...
    • Osteopontin is a prognostic biomarker in non-small cell lung cancer 

      Rud, Ane Kristine Kongsgaard; Pedersen, Kjetil Boye; Øijordsbakken, Miriam; Lund-Iversen, Marius; Halvorsen, Ann Rita; Solberg, Steinar; Berge, Gisle; Helland, Åslaug; Brustugun, Odd Terje; Mælandsmo, Gunhild (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Background: In a previously published report we characterized the expression of the metastasis-associated proteins S100A4, osteopontin (OPN) and ephrin-A1 in a prospectively collected panel of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumors. The aim of the present follow-up study was to investigate the prognostic impact of these potential biomarkers in the same patient cohort. In addition, circulating ...