Wang et al. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research 2012, 31:44 http://www.jeccr.com/content/31/1/44 Page 7 of 7 realization on the involvement of CLIC1 in tumorigenesis and progression of human malignant tumors. Competing interests The authors declared that they have no competing interests. Authors’ contributions LW, SH, and YT carried out the Immunochemistry assay and drafted the manuscript. PJ and JZ carried out the pathological evaluation. LW, SH, YT, JZ, FF, and JZ participated in the survival analysis. YZ and G-dG conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Acknowledgements This work was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NO. 81101736, NO.81272419), Talents Supported Plan Foundation of Tangdu Hospital for Yanyang Tu (2011). Received: 28 March 2012 Accepted: 5 May 2012 Published: 11 May 2012 References 1. 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