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  1. Cervical cancer patients with stage IVB, persistent, or recurrent disease after complete primary treatment are usually treated with systemic chemotherapy. Circulating blood components have been a target of stu...

    Authors: Pornprom Ittiamornlert and Irene Ruengkhachorn
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:51
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  2. Due to the significant heterogeneity of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), immune checkpoints may express differently between primary and metastatic tumor. We aimed to evaluate the differential expression of TIM-3 be...

    Authors: Xingming Zhang, Xiaoxue Yin, Haoran Zhang, Guangxi Sun, Yaojing Yang, Junru Chen, Kunpeng Shu, Jinge Zhao, Peng Zhao, Ni Chen, Jia Wang, Pengfei Shen and Hao Zeng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:49
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  3. Transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) accounts for around 95% of bladder cancers and is the 4th most common cancer among men and the tenth most common in women, in the US. There is a constant need to clarify curre...

    Authors: Muneer J. Al-Husseini, Ahmad Kunbaz, Anas M. Saad, João Vasco Santos, Sami Salahia, Marium Iqbal and Fares Alahdab
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:46
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  4. A strong correlation between breast cancer (BC) molecular subtypes and axillary status has been shown. It would be useful to predict the probability of lymph node (LN) positivity. Objective: To develop the perfor...

    Authors: Gilles Houvenaeghel, Eric Lambaudie, Jean-Marc Classe, Chafika Mazouni, Sylvia Giard, Monique Cohen, Christelle Faure, Hélène Charitansky, Roman Rouzier, Emile Daraï, Delphine Hudry, Pierre Azuar, Richard Villet, Pierre Gimbergues, Christine Tunon de Lara, Marc Martino…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:45
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  6. In Canada, clinical practice guidelines recommend breast cancer screening, but there are gaps in adherence to recommendations for screening, particularly among certain hard-to-reach populations, that may diffe...

    Authors: A. K. Lofters, M. L. McBride, D. Li, M. Whitehead, R. Moineddin, L. Jiang, E. Grunfeld and P. A. Groome
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:42
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  7. The Rearranged during Transfection (RET) protein is overexpressed in a subset of Estrogen Receptor (ER) positive breast cancer, with both signalling pathways functionally interacting. This cross-talk plays a p...

    Authors: Robert Mechera, Savas D. Soysal, Salvatore Piscuoglio, Charlotte K. Y. Ng, Jasmin Zeindler, Edin Mujagic, Silvio Däster, Philippe Glauser, Henry Hoffmann, Ergin Kilic, Raoul A. Droeser, Walter P. Weber and Simone Muenst
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:41
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  8. In the recent phase III trial MPACT the combination of gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel (Gem/NabP) showed increased overall survival compared to gemcitabine alone in the treatment of advanced pancreatic ductal a...

    Authors: Hakon Blomstrand, Ursula Scheibling, Charlotte Bratthäll, Henrik Green and Nils O. Elander
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:40
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  9. Cancer imposes substantial burdens on cancer suffers, their families and the health system, especially in the end of life (EOL) of care patients. There are few developing country studies of EOL health care cos...

    Authors: Anli Leng, Jun Jing, Stephen Nicholas and Jian Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:39
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  10. HER2 (ERBB2 or HER2/neu) is a tyrosine-kinase increasing cell proliferation. Overexpression/amplification of HER2 is correlated with worse prognosis in solid malignancies. Consequently, HER2 targeting is estab...

    Authors: Patrick Sven Plum, Florian Gebauer, Max Krämer, Hakan Alakus, Felix Berlth, Seung-Hun Chon, Lars Schiffmann, Thomas Zander, Reinhard Büttner, Arnulf Heinrich Hölscher, Christiane Josephine Bruns, Alexander Quaas and Heike Loeser
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:38
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  11. Findings remain unclear whether neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) detrimentally affects advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) prognosis. We aim to evaluate the prognostic value of NLR in patients with NPC...

    Authors: Ji-Jin Yao, Feng-Ting Zhu, Jun Dong, Zi-Bin Liang, Le-Wei Yang, Shao-Yi Chen, Wang-Jian Zhang, Wayne R. Lawrence, Fan Zhang, Si-Yang Wang, Ying Sun and Guan-Qun Zhou
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:37
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  13. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 3′-untranslated region (UTR) of genes related with cell-matrix adhesions and migration might affect miRNA binding and potentially affect the risk of cancer. The presen...

    Authors: Shouchun Yan, Rong Sun, Shan Wu, Tianbo Jin, Shanshan Zhang, Fanglin Niu, Jingjie Li and Mingwei Chen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:35
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  15. Use of an implant is one of the risk factors for surgical site infection (SSI) after malignant bone tumor resection. We developed a new technique of coating titanium implant surfaces with iodine to prevent inf...

    Authors: Shinji Miwa, Toshiharu Shirai, Norio Yamamoto, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Akihiko Takeuchi, Kaoru Tada, Yoshitomo Kajino, Takashi Higuchi, Kensaku Abe, Hisaki Aiba, Yuta Taniguchi and Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:33
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  16. The Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool (SSPedi) is valid for assessing symptoms in children aged 8–18 years receiving cancer treatments. The objective was to develop a new self-report symptom screening tool ...

    Authors: Deborah Tomlinson, Shannon Hyslop, Eliana Stein, Brenda Spiegler, Emily Vettese, Susan Kuczynski, Tal Schechter, L. Lee Dupuis and Lillian Sung
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:32
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  17. Cystic hypersecretory carcinoma is a rare subtype of breast cancer. It is a member of cystic hypersecretory lesions, which include a series of pathological disease lineages: cystic hypersecretory hyperplasia (...

    Authors: Jie Sun, Xing Wang and Cuifang Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:31
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  20. Locally advanced or metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreas remains - despite the implementation of new chemotherapy protocols - a disease with short overall survival (OS).

    Authors: Ursula M. Vogl, Haleh Andalibi, Alexander Klaus, Laurenz Vormittag, Wolfgang Schima, Bettina Heinrich, Alice Kafka, Thomas Winkler and Leopold Öhler
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:28
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  23. Lung cancer is typically diagnosed at a late stage. Early presentation and detection of lung cancer symptoms is critical to improving survival but can be clinically complicated and as yet a robust screening me...

    Authors: Shemana Cassim, Lynne Chepulis, Rawiri Keenan, Jacquie Kidd, Melissa Firth and Ross Lawrenson
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:25
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  24. Cervical cancer is the 4th highest cause of female reproductive tract malignancies. Multiple loci have been identified as important determinant factors for tumor susceptibility. In this report, we aimed to exp...

    Authors: Gui-Cen Liu, Yun-Fei Zhou, Xiao-Chao Su and Jun Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:24
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  25. Male Breast Cancer (MBC) is rare, which makes its understanding and treatment be extrapolated from what is known about the occurrence in women, with few epidemiological studies. Therefore, the aim of the prese...

    Authors: Jean Henri Maselli-Schoueri, Fernando Alves Affonso-Kaufman, Claudia Vaz de Melo Sette, Francisco Winter dos Santos Figueiredo and Fernando Adami
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:23
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  26. Neuroendocrine cervical carcinoma (NECC) is a rare but aggressive form of cervical cancer representing less than 3% of all cervical cancer cases. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of the c...

    Authors: Xiaojing Zhang, Zunfu Lv and Hanmei Lou
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:22
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  27. The eighth TNM classification for gastric cancer categorizes N3 as N3a and N3b in the final pathologic stage. The cutoff for N3a/N3b is defined as 15 metastatic lymph nodes, but the rationale for this cutoff r...

    Authors: Man-Qiang Lin, Jia-Bin Wang, Chao-Hui Zheng, Ping Li, Jian-Wei Xie, Jian-Xian Lin, Jun Lu, Qi-Yue Chen, Long-Long Cao, Mi Lin, Qing-Liang He and Chang-Ming Huang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:21
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  28. Shikonin, a natural naphthoquinone, is abundant in Chinese herb medicine Zicao (purple gromwell) and has a wide range of biological activities, especially for cancer. Shikonin and its analogues have been repor...

    Authors: Shoude Zhang, Qiang Gao, Wei Li, Luwei Zhu, Qianhan Shang, Shuo Feng, Junmei Jia, Qiangqiang Jia, Shuo Shen and Zhanhai Su
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:20
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2023 23:461

  29. We aimed to compare intra- and extracranial responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in lung cancer with brain metastases (BM), and to explore tumor microenvironments of the brain and lungs focusing on...

    Authors: Ryul Kim, Bhumsuk Keam, Sehui Kim, Miso Kim, Se Hyun Kim, Jin Wook Kim, Yu Jung Kim, Tae Min Kim, Yoon Kyung Jeon, Dong-Wan Kim, Doo Hyun Chung, Jong Seok Lee and Dae Seog Heo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:19
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  30. Salvage radiotherapy (SRT) for prostate cancer (PCa) recurrence after prostatectomy offers long-term biochemical control in about 50–60% of patients. SRT is commonly initiated in patients with serum PSA levels...

    Authors: Jeremie Calais, Johannes Czernin, Wolfgang P. Fendler, David Elashoff and Nicholas G. Nickols
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:18
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2019 19:97

  31. A prospective, randomised phase II study demonstrated clinical benefit of axitinib dose titration in a subset of treatment-naïve patients treated with axitinib for metastatic renal cell carcinoma. This analysi...

    Authors: Yoshihiko Tomita, Hirotsugu Uemura, Mototsugu Oya, Nobuo Shinohara, Tomonori Habuchi, Yosuke Fujii, Yoichi Kamei, Yoshiko Umeyama, Angel H. Bair and Brian I. Rini
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:17
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  32. Nutrition labeling has been found to affect the amount and type of food intake, with certain groups in the population, such as cancer survivors, being more aware of this information. A higher awareness of nutr...

    Authors: Ji Sung Yoo, Kyu-Tae Han, Seung Hyun Chung and Eun-Cheol Park
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:16
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  33. Metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) is a major cause of death of malignant tumor and the valuable prognostic biomarker for chemotherapy is crucial in decreasing mortality. Previous studies have proved the prog...

    Authors: Jinjia Chang, Guangyi Lin, Min Ye, Duo Tong, Jing Zhao, Dan Zhu, Qihe Yu, Wen Zhang and Wenhua Li
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:15
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  34. Gastric cancer (GC) is a common malignant disease worldwide. Aberrant miRNAs expression contributes to malignant cells behaviour, and in preclinical research, miRNA targeting has shown potential for improving ...

    Authors: Ying Shi, Xiaoxiao Huang, Guobin Chen, Ying Wang, Yuansheng Liu, Wei Xu, Shaohui Tang, Bayasi Guleng, Jingjing Liu and Jianlin Ren
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:14
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  35. The clinical value of total hysterectomy for patients with hydatidiform mole (HM) being at least 40 years old remains highly controversial. Since the practice of hysterectomy has been applied globally for deca...

    Authors: Peng Zhao, Yongchao Lu, Wei Huang, Baoqin Tong and Weiguo Lu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:13
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  36. Radium-223, a targeted alpha therapy, is used to treat symptomatic patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and bone metastases. Data for radium-223 in asymptomatic CRPC patients with bone met...

    Authors: Axel Heidenreich, Silke Gillessen, Daniel Heinrich, Daniel Keizman, Joe M. O’Sullivan, Joan Carles, Manfred Wirth, Kurt Miller, John Reeves, Monica Seger, Sten Nilsson and Fred Saad
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:12
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  37. Reliable methods are needed to identify patients with early-stage cancer or high-grade precancerous lesions in the pancreas. Analysis of pancreatic juice to detect somatic mutations could represent one such ap...

    Authors: Man Hung Choi, Eline Mejlænder-Andersen, Sophia Manueldas, Khadija El Jellas, Solrun J. Steine, Kjersti Tjensvoll, Hege Aase Sætran, Stian Knappskog, Dag Hoem, Oddmund Nordgård, Randi Hovland and Anders Molven
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:11
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  38. Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is likely to be diagnosed at progressive stages and shows a very poor prognosis. Combination therapy with gemcitabine and cisplatin (GEMCIS) has been widely used as first-line palliati...

    Authors: Min su You, Ji Kon Ryu, Young Hoon Choi, Jin Ho Choi, Gunn Huh, Woo Hyun Paik, Sang Hyub Lee and Yong-Tae Kim
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:10
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  39. Dung beetle glycosaminoglycan is known to possess anti-aging activities. However, its anti-cancer mechanisms are not fully elucidated yet. The objective of this study was to evaluate the anti-cancer effect of ...

    Authors: Mi Young Ahn, Ban Ji Kim, Ha Jeong Kim, Jang Mi Jin, Hyung Joo Yoon, Jae Sam Hwang and Kun-Koo Park
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:9
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  40. In this retrospective study, we aimed to demonstrated that three-port single-intercostal (SIC) thoracoscopic lobectomy is an effective choice for lung cancer by comparing the perioperative outcomes of patients...

    Authors: Zixiang Wu, Qi Wang, Cong Wu, Tianwei Zhan, Lingjun Dong, Shuai Fang, Xuyang Peng, Lian Wang, Saibo Pan and Ming Wu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:8
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  41. More than 60% of women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer receive (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy. Breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy often experience symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and loss of ...

    Authors: J. Th. C. M. de Kruif, M. Visser, M. M. G. A. van den Berg, M. J. M. Derks, M. R. de Boer, H. W. M. van Laarhoven, J. H. M. de Vries, Y. C. de Vries, E. Kampman, R. W. Winkels and M. J. Westerman
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:7
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  42. Women have a lower risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) than men, and the decreased possibility of HCC in women is thought to depend on estrogen levels. As a soybean-isoflavone product, genistein has estroge...

    Authors: Sang R. Lee, Sun Woo Kwon, Young Ho Lee, Pelin Kaya, Jong Min Kim, Changhwan Ahn, Eui-Man Jung, Geun-Shik Lee, Beum-Soo An, Eui-Bae Jeung, Bae-keun Park and Eui-Ju Hong
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:6
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  43. The present study aims to assess the performance of 18F-FDG PET-CT on mediastinal staging of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a location with endemic granulomatous infectious disease.

    Authors: Gustavo Werutsky, Bruno Hochhegger, José Antônio Lopes de Figueiredo Pinto, Jeovany Martínez-Mesa, Mara Lise Zanini, Eduardo Herz Berdichevski, Eduardo Vilas, Vinícius Duval da Silva, Maria Teresa Ruiz Tsukazan, Arthur Vieira, Leandro Genehr Fritscher, Louise Hartmann, Marcos Alba, Guilherme Sartori, Cristina Matushita, Vanessa Bortolotto…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:5
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  44. BRCA1/2 pathogenic (P) and likely pathogenic (LP) germline variants are frequent among patients with ovarian carcinoma. However, these variants have not been extensively characterized in patients with ovarian can...

    Authors: Deborah Porto Cotrim, Adriana Regina Gonçalves Ribeiro, Daniele Paixão, Diogo Cordeiro de Queiroz Soares, Rima Jbili, Natasha Carvalho Pandolfi, Camila Cezana, Carine de Cássia Mauro, Henrique Mantoan, Graziele Bovolim, Louise de Brot, Giovana Tardin Torrezan, Dirce Maria Carraro, Glauco Baiocchi, Maria Nirvana da Cruz Formiga and Alexandre A. B. A. da Costa
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:4
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  45. Metachronous cancer in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) is common and is associated with a poor prognosis. We aimed to evaluate the incidence of metachronous cancer at different sites according to age ...

    Authors: Taro Iwatsubo, Ryu Ishihara, Toshitaka Morishima, Akira Maekawa, Kentaro Nakagawa, Masamichi Arao, Masayasu Ohmori, Hiroyoshi Iwagami, Kenshi Matsuno, Shuntaro Inoue, Hiroko Nakahira, Noriko Matsuura, Satoki Shichijo, Takashi Kanesaka, Sachiko Yamamoto, Yoji Takeuchi…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:3
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  46. Existing evidence demonstrates that 1:1 personal training (PT) improves many adverse effects of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). Whether less resource-intensive exercise delivery models are as effective rem...

    Authors: Shabbir M. H. Alibhai, Daniel Santa Mina, Paul Ritvo, George Tomlinson, Catherine Sabiston, Murray Krahn, Sara Durbano, Andrew Matthew, Padraig Warde, Meagan O’Neill, Narhari Timilshina, Roanne Segal and Nicole Culos-Reed
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:2
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  47. Neuroblastic tumours (NBTs) are paediatric solid tumours derived from embryonic neural crest cells which harbour their own cancer stem cells (CSC). There is evidence indicating that CSC may be responsible for ...

    Authors: Ezequiel Monferrer, Rebeca Burgos-Panadero, Maite Blanquer-Maceiras, Adela Cañete, Samuel Navarro and Rosa Noguera
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1
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  48. Even clearly resectable pancreatic cancer still has an unfavorable prognosis. Neoadjuvant or perioperative therapies might improve the prognosis of these patients. Thus, evaluation of perioperative chemotherap...

    Authors: Thomas J. Ettrich, Andreas W. Berger, Lukas Perkhofer, Severin Daum, Alexander König, Andreas Dickhut, Uwe Wittel, Kai Wille, Michael Geissler, Hana Algül, Eike Gallmeier, Jens Atzpodien, Marko Kornmann, Rainer Muche, Nicole Prasnikar, Andrea Tannapfel…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:1298
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  49. Despite increasing use, symptomatic venous thromboembolism (VTE) associated with peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) is a common complication in nonmetastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients.

    Authors: Yu-Jing Liang, Lin-Quan Tang, Xue-Song Sun, Yu-Ying Fan, Jin-Jie Yan, Yu-Yun Du, Shan-Shan Guo, Li-Ting Liu, Hao-Jun Xie, Sai-Lan Liu, Qing-Nan Tang, Xiao-Yun Li, Hai-Qiang Mai and Qiu-Yan Chen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:1297
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  50. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. Around 50% of breast cancer familial risk has been so far explained by known susceptibility alleles with variable levels of risk and prevalence. The ...

    Authors: Yosr Hamdi, Mariem Ben Rekaya, Shan Jingxuan, Majdi Nagara, Olfa Messaoud, Amel Benammar Elgaaied, Ridha Mrad, Lotfi Chouchane, Mohamed Samir Boubaker, Sonia Abdelhak, Hamouda Boussen and Lilia Romdhane
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:1295
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