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Inflammatory cytokines are associated with response and prognosis in patients with esophageal cancer.

Oncotarget · 2017 · PMC5564583 · PMID 28537901

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showed a trendp = 0.124not close (p > 0.1)
No factors were found to have prognostic relevance in the patients’ serum, though high IL-6 levels showed a trend to be associated with worse prognosis ( p = 0.124) (Figure 1A ).

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported
A trend could be seen for IL-6 in the serum, as patients with lower concentrations of this factor had better prognosis than patients with higher concentrations, but this did not reach statistical significance.

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