Research progress in the relationship between insulin like growth factor binding protein-2(IGFBP-2) and lung cancer / 实用肿瘤学杂志

ABSTRACT

As a high sensitive biomarker of lung cancer ,IGFBP2 plays an important role in the occur-rence,development and treatment of lung cancer .Studies have showed that it promotes tumor progression by acti-vating the IGF1R and integrin mediated signal transduction pathway .Recent researches have demonstrated that it participates in targeted therapy of lung cancer ,which may become a new target for the treatment of lung cancer . This paper makes a review on the relationship between IGFBP 2 and lung cancer .