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  1. Vasculogenic mimicry (VM) a microvascular system consisting of non-endothelial cells that is newly formed by aggressive tumors, has been proposed as an important therapeutic target in malignant melanoma (MM). ...

    Authors: Zhenhua Zhang, Saber Imani, Marzieh Dehghan Shasaltaneh, Hossein Hosseinifard, Linglin Zou, Yu Fan and Qinglian Wen

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1134

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  2. Operable breast cancer patients may experience late recurrences because of reactivation of dormant tumor cells within the bone marrow (BM). Identification of patients who would benefit from extended therapy is...

    Authors: Kjersti Tjensvoll, Oddmund Nordgård, Maren Skjæveland, Satu Oltedal, Emiel A. M. Janssen and Bjørnar Gilje

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1131

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  3. The platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR), lymphocyte to monocyte ratio (LMR), and neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) reflect the systematic inflammatory response, with some evidence revealing that they are ass...

    Authors: Hua-Long Zheng, Jun Lu, Jian-Wei Xie, Jia-Bin Wang, Jian-Xian Lin, Qi-Yue Chen, Long-Long Cao, Mi Lin, Ru-Hong Tu, Ze-Ning Huang, Ju-Li Lin, Ping Li, Chao-Hui Zheng and Chang-Ming Huang

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1127

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  4. Glioma is a common malignant tumours in the central nervous system (CNS), that exhibits high morbidity, a low cure rate, and a high recurrence rate. Currently, immune cells are increasingly known to play roles...

    Authors: Qiu-Yue Zhong, Er-Xi Fan, Guang-Yong Feng, Qi-Ying Chen, Xiao-Xia Gou, Guo-Jun Yue and Gui-hai Zhang

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1116

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  5. The aim was to investigate the prognostic value of MR apparent diffusion coefficients (ADC) using histogram analysis (HA) in predicting disease-free survival (DFS) of cervical cancer after chemo-radiation ther...

    Authors: Bo Zhao, Kun Cao, Xiao-Ting Li, Hai-Tao Zhu and Ying-Shi Sun

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1115

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  6. We investigated the association of LHR expression in epithelial ovarian cancer (OC) with clinical and pathologic characteristics of patients. LHR expression was examined immunohistochemically using tissue micr...

    Authors: Shigang Xiong, Paulette Mhawech-Fauceglia, Denice Tsao-Wei, Lynda Roman, Rajesh K. Gaur, Alan L. Epstein and Jacek Pinski

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1114

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  7. Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) has emerged as a promising blood-based biomarker for monitoring disease status of patients with advanced cancers. The presence of ctDNA in the blood is a result of biological pro...

    Authors: Leslie Calapre, Lydia Warburton, Michael Millward and Elin S. Gray

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1109

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  8. Recently, a growing number of studies have reported the coorelation between miR-155 and the diagnosis and prognosis of lung cancer, but results of these researches were still controversial due to insufficient ...

    Authors: Chuchu Shao, Fengming Yang, Zhiqiang Qin, Xinming Jing, Yongqian Shu and Hua Shen

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1103

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  9. The prognostic relevance of circulating tumour cells (CTCs) in metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients has been confirmed by several clinical trials. However, predictive blood-based biomarkers for stratificati...

    Authors: Natalia Krawczyk, Melissa Neubacher, Franziska Meier-Stiegen, Hans Neubauer, Dieter Niederacher, Eugen Ruckhäberle, Svjetlana Mohrmann, Jürgen Hoffmann, Thomas Kaleta, Malgorzata Banys-Paluchowski, Petra Reinecke, Irene Esposito, Wolfgang Janni and Tanja Fehm

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1101

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  10. Abnormal autocrine fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF19) production has been observed in several types of cancers, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In this study, we investigated the potential of serum ...

    Authors: Takahiro Maeda, Hiroaki Kanzaki, Tetsuhiro Chiba, Junjie Ao, Kengo Kanayama, Susumu Maruta, Yuko Kusakabe, Tomoko Saito, Kazufumi Kobayashi, Soichiro Kiyono, Masato Nakamura, Sadahisa Ogasawara, Eiichiro Suzuki, Yoshihiko Ooka, Shingo Nakamoto, Ryo Nakagawa…

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1088

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  11. SOX2 is regarded as an important marker in stem cell. The change of SOX2 expression after adjuvant therapy in high grade glioma (HGG) remains unknown so far. Few patients with recurrent glioma have opportunity...

    Authors: Wei Yu, Xiaoqiu Ren, Chunxiu Hu, Yinuo Tan, Yongjie Shui, Zexin Chen, Lili Zhang, Jiaping Peng and Qichun Wei

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1087

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  12. Cytokeratin 7 (CK7) and GATA binding protein 3 (GATA3) are considered as immunohistochemical hallmarks of breast cancers; however, there are breast tumors lacking these markers. Clinicopathological characteriz...

    Authors: Shaolei Lu, Evgeny Yakirevich, Li Juan Wang, Murray B. Resnick and Yihong Wang

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1085

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  13. Elevated red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and decreased platelet count (PLT) can be clinically relevant to the prognosis in cancer patients. However, their prognostic values in patients with diffuse lar...

    Authors: Manman Li, Hailong Xia, Huimin Zheng, Yafeng Li, Jun Liu, Linhui Hu, Jingrong Li, Yangyang Ding, Lianfang Pu, Qianle Gui, Yijie Zheng, Zhimin Zhai and Shudao Xiong

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1084

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  14. Hepatoma-derived growth factor (HDGF) participates in angiogenesis and represents a negative prognostic factor in oral cancer. The current study was designed to elucidate the regulatory mechanism between HDGF ...

    Authors: Yu-Wei Lin, Shih-Tsung Huang, Jian-Ching Wu, Tian-Huei Chu, Shih-Chung Huang, Ching-Chih Lee and Ming-Hong Tai

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1083

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  15. To reveal roles of reactive oxygen species (ROS) status in chemotherapy resistance and to develop a ROS scoring system for prognosis prediction in ovarian cancer.

    Authors: Chaoyang Sun, Ensong Guo, Bo Zhou, Wanying Shan, Jia Huang, Danhui Weng, Peng Wu, Changyu Wang, Shixuan Wang, Wei Zhang, Qinglei Gao, Xiaoyan Xu, Beibei Wang, Junbo Hu, Ding Ma and Gang Chen

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1061

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  16. There has been a sharp rise in the incidence of human papillomavirus (HPV) associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) in many countries. Patients with HPV-positive OPSCC have a more favorable pro...

    Authors: Titaporn Nopmaneepaisarn, Napadon Tangjaturonrasme, Worawat Rawangban, Chanida Vinayanuwattikun, Somboon Keelawat and Andrey Bychkov

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1050

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  17. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is characterized by its clinical and biological heterogeneity. The clinical prognostic implications of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) in DLBCL remain controversial an...

    Authors: Yan-Li Li, Zhi-Hu Shi, Xian Wang, Kang-Sheng Gu and Zhi-Min Zhai

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1049

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  18. Despite much effort on the treatment of breast cancer over the decades, a great uncertainty regarding the appropriate molecular biomarkers and optimal therapeutic strategy still exists. This research was perfo...

    Authors: Chenjing Zhu, Otilia Menyhart, Balázs Győrffy and Xia He

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1046

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  19. The breast cancer microenvironment contributes to tumor progression and response to chemotherapy. Previously, we reported that increased stromal Type X collagen α1 (ColXα1) and low TILs correlated with poor pa...

    Authors: Chaohui Lisa Zhao, Kamaljeet Singh, Alexander S. Brodsky, Shaolei Lu, Theresa A. Graves, Mary Anne Fenton, Dongfang Yang, Ashlee Sturtevant, Murray B. Resnick and Yihong Wang

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1036

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  20. The prognostic value of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) and BRAF expression in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is not well-defined. In this study we investigated alterations in PD-L1, BRAF and EGFR by using i...

    Authors: Yabing Cao, Kin Iong Chan, Gungli Xiao, Yanqun Chen, Xibin Qiu, Hu Hao, Sao Chi Mak and Tongyu Lin

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1022

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  21. Recent preclinical data suggest that androgen receptor (AR) signaling plays a significant role in subsets of breast cancer. Clinical trials testing AR-targeting therapies in breast cancer have been conducted. ...

    Authors: Toru Hanamura, Koichi Ohno, Shinya Hokibara, Hideki Murasawa, Toshitsugu Nakamura, Hidehiko Watanabe, Machiko Kaizuka, Shinji Sawano, Hiroshi Koyama and Ken-ichi Ito

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1021

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  22. Analysis of molecular markers in addition to cytological analysis of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) samples is a promising way to improve the preoperative diagnosis of thyroid nodules. Nonetheless, in clinical p...

    Authors: Sergei E. Titov, Mikhail K. Ivanov, Pavel S. Demenkov, Gevork A. Katanyan, Eugenia S. Kozorezova, Anastasia V. Malek, Yulia A. Veryaskina and Igor F. Zhimulev

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1010

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  23. An External Quality Assessment (EQA) program was developed to investigate the status of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and Ki-67 immunohistochemical (IHC) detection in breast cancer and to...

    Authors: Tianjie Pu, Ruohong Shui, Jie Shi, Zhiyong Liang, Wentao Yang, Hong Bu, Qin Li and Zhang Zhang

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:978

    Content type: Technical advance

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  24. Recent studies have shown that immune-related adverse events (irAEs) caused by immune checkpoint inhibitors were associated with clinical benefit in patients with melanoma or lung cancer. In advanced gastric c...

    Authors: Ken Masuda, Hirokazu Shoji, Kengo Nagashima, Shun Yamamoto, Masashi Ishikawa, Hiroshi Imazeki, Masahiko Aoki, Takahiro Miyamoto, Hidekazu Hirano, Yoshitaka Honma, Satoru Iwasa, Natsuko Okita, Atsuo Takashima, Ken Kato and Narikazu Boku

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:974

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  25. Significant advances in the molecular profiling of gliomas, led the 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) Classification to include, for the first-time, molecular biomarkers in glioma diagnosis: IDH mutations and ...

    Authors: Cheila Brito, Ana Azevedo, Susana Esteves, Ana Rita Marques, Carmo Martins, Ilda Costa, Manuela Mafra, José M. Bravo Marques, Lúcia Roque and Marta Pojo

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:968

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  27. Protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor 12 (PTPN12) is ubiquitously tyrosine phosphatase with tumor suppressive properties.

    Authors: Sören A. Weidemann, Charlotte Sauer, Andreas M. Luebke, Christina Möller-Koop, Stefan Steurer, Claudia Hube-Magg, Franziska Büscheck, Doris Höflmayer, Maria Christina Tsourlakis, Till S. Clauditz, Ronald Simon, Guido Sauter, Cosima Göbel, Patrick Lebok, David Dum, Christoph Fraune…

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:944

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  28. Prognostic assessment is crucial for optimal treatment. The aim of our study was to investigate the potential impact of estrogen receptor-α (ER-α) and progesterone receptor (PR) on the prognosis of colorectal ...

    Authors: Shu-Biao Ye, Yi-Kan Cheng, Lin Zhang, Xue-Ping Wang, Lei Wang and Ping Lan

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:933

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  29. Ovarian cancer is the main cause of gynecological cancer-associated death. However, 5-year survival rates differ dramatically between the five main ovarian carcinoma histotypes. Therefore, we need to have a be...

    Authors: Hanna Engqvist, Toshima Z. Parris, Anikó Kovács, Szilárd Nemes, Elisabeth Werner Rönnerman, Shahin De Lara, Jana Biermann, Karin Sundfeldt, Per Karlsson and Khalil Helou

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:928

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  30. This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of maximal standard uptake values (SUVmax) of 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (PET) comparing with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA levels i...

    Authors: Xue-Song Sun, Yu-Jing Liang, Sai-Lan Liu, Qiu-Yan Chen, Shan-Shan Guo, Yue-Feng Wen, Li-Ting Liu, Hao-Jun Xie, Qing-Nan Tang, Xiao-Yun Li, Jin-Jie Yan, Lin-Quan Tang and Hai-Qiang Mai

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:908

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  31. Combination of chemotherapies (fluoropirimidines, oxaliplatin and irinotecan) with biologic drugs (bevacizumab, panitumumab, cetuximab) have improved clinical responses and survival of metastatic colorectal ca...

    Authors: Alessandro Ottaiano, Stefania Scala, Nicola Normanno, Maria Napolitano, Monica Capozzi, Anna Maria Rachiglio, Cristin Roma, Anna Maria Trotta, Crescenzo D’Alterio, Luigi Portella, Carmela Romano, Antonino Cassata, Rossana Casaretti, Lucrezia Silvestro, Anna Nappi, Salvatore Tafuto…

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:899

    Content type: Study protocol

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  32. We evaluated the clinical efficacy and prognosis of muscle-invasive bladder cancer according to the basal/squamous-like (BASQ) classification system based on immunohistochemical staining [CK5/6(+), CK14(+), GA...

    Authors: Hyeong Dong Yuk, Chang Wook Jeong, Cheol Kwak, Hyeon Hoe Kim, Kyung Chul Moon and Ja Hyeon Ku

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:897

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  34. Gene expression profiling of rare cancers has proven challenging due to limited access to patient materials and requirement of intact, non-degraded RNA for next-generation sequencing. We customized a gene expr...

    Authors: Jasmine A. McQuerry, David F. Jenkins, Susan E. Yost, Yuqing Zhang, Daniel Schmolze, W. Evan Johnson, Yuan Yuan and Andrea H. Bild

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:881

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  35. Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women, and neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been recommended to the patients with locally advanced breast cancer as the initial treatments. Long non-coding RNA (lncRN...

    Authors: Battseren Bayarmaa, Ziping Wu, Jing Peng, Yan Wang, Shuguang Xu, Tingting Yan, Wenjin Yin, Jinsong Lu and Liheng Zhou

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:877

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  36. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is one of the most frequent malignant digestive tumors around the world. We previously demonstrated that eIF3b could promote the progression of ESCC. The exact mechani...

    Authors: Fengkai Xu, Shu Zhang, Zhonghe Liu, Jie Gu, Yin Li, Lin Wang, Wei Mao, Qiaoliang Zhu, Huankai Shou, Di Ge and Chunlai Lu

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:875

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  38. This study aims to investigate the expression of thioredoxin 1, peroxiredoxin 1 and peroxiredoxin 2 in bulky cervical squamous carcinoma and its predictive role in cisplatin-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

    Authors: Haiyan Zhu, Xuejiao Tao, Lulu Zhou, Bo Sheng, Xuejie Zhu and Xueqiong Zhu

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:865

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  39. Gradual loss of terminal differentiation markers and gain of stem cell-like properties is a major hall mark of cancer malignant progression. The stem cell pluripotent transcriptional factor SOX family play cri...

    Authors: Mei-Mei Li, Yun-Qiang Tang, Yuan-Feng Gong, Wei Cheng, Hao-Long Li, Fan-En Kong, Wen-Jie Zhu, Shan-Shan Liu, Li Huang, Xin-Yuan Guan, Ning-Fang Ma and Ming Liu

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:851

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  40. Recent studies reported that blood-based microRNAs (miRNAs) could detect cancers and predict prognosis have opened a new field of utilizing circulating miRNAs as cancer biomarkers. In this pilot study, we cond...

    Authors: Lirong Wu, Kexiao Zheng, Cheng Yan, Xuan Pan, Yatian Liu, Juying Liu, Feijiang Wang, Wenjie Guo, Xia He, Jiong Li and Ye Shen

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:843

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  41. Metastasis is responsible for the majority of deaths in a variety of cancer types, including breast cancer. Although several factors or biomarkers have been identified to predict the outcome of patients with b...

    Authors: Liang Zeng, Xiyun Deng, Jingmin Zhong, Li Yuan, Xiaojun Tao, Sai Zhang, Yong Zeng, Guangchun He, Pingping Tan and Yongguang Tao

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:831

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  42. The concept of head and neck cancers (HNSCC) having unique molecular signatures is well accepted but relating this to clinical presentation and disease behaviour is essential for patient benefit. Currently the...

    Authors: Fatima Qadir, Anand Lalli, Huma Habib Dar, Sungjae Hwang, Hebah Aldehlawi, Hong Ma, Haiyan Dai, Ahmad Waseem and Muy-Teck Teh

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:830

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  44. Eradication of minimal residual disease (MRD), at the end of Fludarabine-Cyclophosphamide-Rituximab (FCR) treatment, is a validated surrogate marker for progression-free and overall survival in chronic lymphoc...

    Authors: Martin Gauthier, Françoise Durrieu, Elodie Martin, Michael Peres, François Vergez, Thomas Filleron, Lucie Obéric, Fontanet Bijou, Anne Quillet Mary and Loic Ysebaert

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:809

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  45. Few diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers are available for head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have shown promise as biomarkers in other cancer types and in some cases...

    Authors: Madeleine Sassenberg, Johanna Droop, Wolfgang A. Schulz, Dimo Dietrich, Sophia Marie Loick, Constanze Wiek, Kathrin Scheckenbach, Nadine T. Gaisa and Michèle J. Hoffmann

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:806

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  46. Protein kinase C iota (PKCι) and protein kinase C zeta (PKCζ) are two atypical protein kinase (aPKC) enzymes that contribute to cell proliferation and cancer development. The Hippo/YAP pathway is commonly disr...

    Authors: Kyung-Hee Kim, Chaeuk Chung, Jin-Man Kim, Dahye Lee, Sang Yeon Cho, Tae Hee Lee, Hyun Jin Cho and Min-Kyung Yeo

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:804

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  47. To validate the utility of the chemokine ligand 12 (CXCL12) as prognostic marker in patients with localized and metastatic germ cell tumors (GCT).

    Authors: Christian Daniel Fankhauser, Lisa Roth, Nico Christian Grossmann, Benedikt Kranzbühler, Daniel Eberli, Tullio Sulser, Holger Moch, Peter-Karl Bode, Joerg Beyer and Thomas Hermanns

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:802

    Content type: Research article

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  49. Histology is a traditional way to classify subtypes of thymoma, because of low cost and convenience. Yet, due to the diverse morphology of thymoma, this method increases the complexity of histopathologic class...

    Authors: Liang-Chuan Lai, Qiang-Ling Sun, Yu-An Chen, Yi-Wen Hsiao, Tzu-Pin Lu, Mong-Hsun Tsai, Lei Zhu, Eric Y. Chuang and Wentao Fang

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:796

    Content type: Research article

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