Relationship between levels of Cyr61, CTGF, and WISP-1 mRNA in lung cancer and the clinical and pathological features of these individuals.

†All patients included in this study were asked whether their living or dead first-degree relatives (parents, siblings, children) had been affected by a lung malignancy.‡squamous-cell carcinoma; §adenocarcinoma; ¶adenosquamous-cell carcinoma; $including other pathological types except for squamous-cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, adeno-squamous cell carcinoma.*The value is the relative levels of normalized target genes by β-actin in cancer versus matched normal samples.**P