Do preoperative plasma fibrinogen levels in gastric cancer patients correlate with extent of tumor?
These data suggest that the plasma fibrinogen level is a clinically important and useful marker of the extent of tumor progression in gastric cancer.
We suggest a phenotypic/MC1R profile for melanoma patients and their tumours. Melanomas of MC1R R carriers show a significant lower TDS value, with reduced dermoscopic structures, and a lower prevalence of an atypical pigment network. Non-carriers of MC1R R variants develop melanomas dermoscopically characterized by an atypical pigment network which is prevalent in superficial spreading melanomas, in patients with dark complexion and less frequent in red-haired individuals.