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Abstract

This study was approved by the institutional ethical committee and involved 94 paraffin embedded tumor tissue specimens from the affiliated Tumor Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University from January 2005 to December 2010. There were 65 males and 29 females, including 61 Han cases and 33 Uygur cases. The inclusion criteria for the study were newly diagnosed cases without anti-tumor treatment. Patient characteristics were recorded consisting of ethnicity, age, gender, KPS scale, pathological grade and VEGF expression level. All samples were selected from individuals receiving routine treatment