Serum YKL-40, a new prognostic biomarker in cancer patients?

JS Johansen, BV Jensen, A Roslind, D Nielsen… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2006 - AACR
… serum YKL-40 and HER2 had the poorest median survival of … 32 months for patients with
normal serum YKL-40 and HER2. … YKL-40 in an independent prognostic factor for poor survival

Elevated serum level of YKL40 is an independent prognostic factor for poor survival in patients with metastatic melanoma

H Schmidt, JS Johansen, J Gehl… - … Journal of the …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… found an elevated serum YKL-40 to be an independent prognostic factor for poor survival
in patients with metastatic melanoma. When combining the levels of serum YKL-40 and LDH, …

High serum YKL-40 level in patients with small cell lung cancer is related to early death

JS Johansen, L Drivsholm, PA Price, IJ Christensen - Lung cancer, 2004 - Elsevier
… high serum YKL-40 levels were related to short recurrence-free interval and poor survival
of … The median survival time for the patients with elevated serum YKL-40 was 5.1 months …

High serum YKL40 level after surgery for colorectal carcinoma is related to short survival

C Cintin, JS Johansen, IJ Christensen… - … Journal of the …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… It has been suggested that high serum YKL-40 levels might be useful as an independent
preoperative predictor for poor survival in patients with colorectal carcinoma.22 However, a …

[HTML][HTML] High serum YKL-40 is a poor prognostic marker in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer

IK Choi, YH Kim, JS Kim, JH Seo - Acta Oncologica, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
YKL-40 and a poor prognosis has been well documented [Citation5,Citation7,Citation8], but
the specific relationship between levels of YKL-40 and survival in … of YKL-40 and survival in …

High serum levels of YKL40 in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck are associated with short survival

A Roslind, JS Johansen, IJ Christensen… - … journal of cancer, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… of YKL-40 and outcome. However, YKL-40 is a prognostic biomarker of poor survival in other
… a significant impact on the association of serum YKL-40 and survival found in this study. …

Serum YKL-40 predicts relapse-free and overall survival in patients with American Joint Committee on Cancer stage I and II melanoma

H Schmidt, JS Johansen, P Sjoegren… - Journal of Clinical …, 2006 - ascopubs.org
… and short overall survival, and that high serum YKL-40 was an independent prognostic
factor of poor survival. In patients treated surgically for colorectal cancer, a high serum YKL-40

Elevated pretreatment serum concentration of YKL40—An independent prognostic biomarker for poor survival in patients with metastatic nonsmall cell lung cancer

I Thöm, B Andritzky, G Schuch, I Burkholder, L Edler… - Cancer, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… value of pretreatment serum YKL-40 levels for survival in patients with metastatic NSCLC. …
a high serum YKL-40 level was an independent prognostic biomarker of poor survival in this …

High YKL-40 is associated with poor survival in patients with renal cell carcinoma: a novel independent prognostic marker

T Väänänen, J Kallio, K Vuolteenaho… - … journal of urology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
YKL-40 was also strongly associated with poor survival, as only the metastatic status of the
YKL-40 was found to be a statistically significant independent risk factor for poor survival in …

[HTML][HTML] Prognostic value of YKL-40 in solid tumors: A meta-analysis of 41 cohort studies

B Bian, L Li, J Yang, Y Liu, G Xie, Y Zheng… - Cancer cell …, 2019 - Springer
… The available evidence supports the hypothesis that elevated serum/plasma YKL-40 is
associated with poor survival in patients with solid tumors and that serum/plasma YKL-40 may …