... steroids in the percentage of PBMCs displayingp-STAT-3 since patients both receiving and not receivingsteroids within the same histology could not be compareddue to the routine administration of intraoperative ... activated in 50-90% of allmalignant tumors, including 53% of anaplastic astrocyto-mas and 53% of glioblastomas [3]. In gliomas, cytokines,such as interleukin (IL)-6 (IL-6) [4,5] and epidermalgrowth ... epidermal growth factor [43], and Janus kinase 2 [46], and it is uncertainwhich of these, either individually or in combination, isthe etiological agent for inducing p-STAT-3 in PBMC.Alternatively,...