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Thus, VEGF is a crucial growth factor mediating tumor angiogenesis, and its expression has been associated with advanced grade, stage, and recurrence of TCC [78], [79], [80].

Furthermore, VEGF over-expression has been found to be correlated with the grade, stage, and recurrence of tumors indicating that VEGF-positive tumors are biologically aggressive [81].

In cancer cells, Ki-67 plays an important role as an index for the replication and the prognosis and is well associated with tumor grade, stage and recurrence [101].

After adjusting for stage and recurrence in a multivariate analysis, a significant correlation was not detected in Ki-67 levels.

The majority of lung cancer is diagnosed at a relatively late stage, and recurrence is common even after optimal therapy.

In the present study, we found that increased SLDH levels were closely associated with pT, pM, pTNM stage, and recurrence (Table 1).

We characterised the inflammatory infiltrate in relation to stage and recurrences in 24-month follow-up.

Regarding head and neck cancer, 18F-FDG PET/CT is recommended in diagnosis, staging, and recurrence detection [2].

There has previously been some investigation into the inter-observer variability of using F-18-FDG PET/CT for staging and recurrence evaluation in various types of cancers; some using qualitative evaluation [25 28] with generally only moderate agreement among observers, and some using SUV-based evaluation [5, 29 31] which demonstrate better (mostly near perfect) agreement among observers.

The χ-analysis demonstrated that expression of membrane Y negatively correlated with tumour grade and evidence of metastasis at follow-up (P=0.005, P=0.001, Table 2), but no correlation was demonstrated with age, T-stage and recurrence.

However, there is good evidence that FDG-PET may be useful in these tumours particularly for local staging and recurrence.