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  1. Emerging inflammatory response biomarkers are developed to predict the survival of patients with cancer, the aim of our study is to establish an inflammation-related nomogram based on the classical predictive ...

    Authors: Ying Wang, Xiao Qu, Ngar-Woon Kam, Kai Wang, Hongchang Shen, Qi Liu and Jiajun Du
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:692
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  2. The neuronal intermediate filament alpha-internexin (α-internexin) is a cytoskeleton protein which is involved in the tumor initiation and progression. In this study, we examined the expression and prognosis v...

    Authors: Yuhong Wang, Yuanjia Chen, Xiaoxing Li, Wanming Hu, Yu Zhang, Luohai Chen, Minhu Chen and Jie Chen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:691
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  3. Orphan nuclear receptors ERRα, ERRβ and ERRγ that belong to NR3B or type IV nuclear receptor family are well studied for their role in breast cancer pathophysiology. Their homology with the canonical estrogen ...

    Authors: Kanchan Kumari, Amit K. Adhya, Arabinda Kumar Rath, P. B. Reddy and Sandip K. Mishra
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:690
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  4. Cancer cells require increased levels of nutrients such as amino acids to sustain their rapid growth. In particular, leucine and glutamine have been shown to be important for growth and proliferation of some b...

    Authors: Michelle van Geldermalsen, Lake-Ee Quek, Nigel Turner, Natasha Freidman, Angel Pang, Yi Fang Guan, James R. Krycer, Renae Ryan, Qian Wang and Jeff Holst
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:689
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  5. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth-leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. The silent nature of the disease and its poor prognosis, the need for further research, along with the need to assess the ou...

    Authors: Anas M. Saad, Tarek Turk, Muneer J. Al-Husseini and Omar Abdel-Rahman
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:688
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  6. Heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) are complex molecules which play a role in the invasion and growth and metastatic properties of cancerous cells. In this work we analyze changes in the patterns of express...

    Authors: Ainara Crespo, Olivia García-Suárez, Iván Fernández-Vega, María Pilar Solis-Hernandez, Beatriz García, Sonia Castañón and Luis M. Quirós
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:687
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  7. Oral cancer is a serious problem owing to its poor prognosis and destruction of patients’ eating ability as well as facial appearance. Epidemiological studies can provide aetiological clues for prevention. The...

    Authors: Jin-Ye Fu, Chun-Xiao Wu, Chen-Ping Zhang, Jing Gao, Jian-Feng Luo, Shu-Kun Shen, Ying Zheng and Zhi-Yuan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:686
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  8. Evidence suggests reallocating daily sedentary time to physical activity or sleep confers important health benefits in cancer survivors. Despite emerging research suggesting physical activity as a treatment fo...

    Authors: Diane K. Ehlers, Jason Fanning, Elizabeth A. Salerno, Susan Aguiñaga, Josh Cosman, Joan Severson, Arthur F. Kramer and Edward McAuley
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:685
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  9. Uterine serous carcinoma (USC) is a rare but aggressive subtype of endometrial carcinoma. Large-scale comprehensive efforts have resulted in an improved molecular understanding of its pathogenesis, and the p53...

    Authors: Katharina Bischof, Stian Knappskog, Ingunn Stefansson, Emmet Martin McCormack, Jone Trovik, Henrica Maria Johanna Werner, Kathrine Woie, Bjorn Tore Gjertsen and Line Bjorge
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:684
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  10. The insurance reimbursement rate of medical cost affects the quality and quantity of health services provided in China. The nature of this relationship, however, has not been reliably described in the field of...

    Authors: Xi Li, Qi Zhou, Xinyu Wang, Shaofei Su, Meiqi Zhang, Hao Jiang, Jiaying Wang and Meina Liu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:683
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  11. Progesterone receptor (PR) is expressed from a single gene as two isoforms, PRA and PRB. In normal breast human tissue, PRA and PRB are expressed in equimolar ratios, but isoform ratio is altered during malign...

    Authors: María José Carlini, María Sol Recouvreux, Marina Simian and Maria Aparecida Nagai
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:682
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  12. MicroRNAs can be used in the prognosis of malignancies; however, their regulatory mechanisms are unknown, especially in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).

    Authors: Ce Li, Qian Dong, Xiaofang Che, Ling Xu, Zhi Li, Yibo Fan, Kezuo Hou, Shuo Wang, Jinglei Qu, Lu Xu, Ti Wen, Xianghong Yang, Xiujuan Qu and Yunpeng Liu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:681
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  13. We previously showed that knockdown of nuclear factor E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) resulted in suppression of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. In this study, whether brusatol, an Nrf2 inhibitor, has dual anti-...

    Authors: Yuko Murakami, Kazuo Sugiyama, Hirotoshi Ebinuma, Nobuhiro Nakamoto, Keisuke Ojiro, Po-sung Chu, Nobuhito Taniki, Yoshimasa Saito, Toshiaki Teratani, Yuzo Koda, Takahiro Suzuki, Kyoko Saito, Masayoshi Fukasawa, Masanori Ikeda, Nobuyuki Kato, Takanori Kanai…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:680
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  14. Almost all of the extracellular matrix (ECM) components can be degraded by the endoproteinases matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Important regulators of MMPs, and thereby of the extracellular environment, are ...

    Authors: Camilla Böckelman, Ines Beilmann-Lehtonen, Tuomas Kaprio, Selja Koskensalo, Taina Tervahartiala, Harri Mustonen, Ulf-Håkan Stenman, Timo Sorsa and Caj Haglund
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:679
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  15. The hypercoagulable state associated with pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDA) results in increased risk of venous thromboembolism, leading to substantial morbidity and mortality. Recently, neutrophil extracellular...

    Authors: Brian A. Boone, Pranav Murthy, Jennifer Miller-Ocuin, W. Reed Doerfler, Jarrod T. Ellis, Xiaoyan Liang, Mark A. Ross, Callen T. Wallace, Jason L. Sperry, Michael T. Lotze, Matthew D. Neal and Herbert J. Zeh III
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:678
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  16. Prostate and breast cancer can have a lot of negative consequences such as fatigue, sleep difficulties and emotional distress, which decrease quality of life. Group interventions showed benefits to emotional d...

    Authors: C. Grégoire, H. Nicolas, I. Bragard, F. Delevallez, I. Merckaert, D. Razavi, D. Waltregny, M.-E. Faymonville and A. Vanhaudenhuyse
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:677
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  17. Novel non-invasive biomarkers for gastric cancer (GC) are needed, because the present diagnostic methods for GC are either invasive or insensitive and non-specific in clinic. The presence of stable circulating...

    Authors: Gaoping Zhao, Tao Jiang, Yanzhuo Liu, Guoli Huai, Chunbin Lan, Guiquan Li, Guiqing Jia, Kang Wang and Maozhu Yang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:676
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  19. Hypoxia stimulates metastasis in cancer and is linked to poor patient prognosis. In tumours, oxygen levels vary and hypoxic regions exist within a generally well-oxygenated tumour. However, whilst the heteroge...

    Authors: Hannah Harrison, Henry J. Pegg, Jamie Thompson, Christian Bates and Paul Shore
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:674
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  20. KMT2/MLL proteins are commonly overexpressed or mutated in cancer and have been shown to support cancer maintenance. These proteins are responsible for methylating histone 3 at lysine 4 and promoting transcrip...

    Authors: Beth K. Neilsen, Binita Chakraborty, Jamie L. McCall, Danielle E. Frodyma, Richard L. Sleightholm, Kurt W. Fisher and Robert E. Lewis
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:673
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  21. High-grade salivary gland cancer is a distinct clinical entity that has aggressive disease progression and early systemic spread. However, because of the rarity of the disease, the clinical outcomes, prognosti...

    Authors: Jeon Yeob Jang, Nayeon Choi, Young-Hyeh Ko, Man Ki Chung, Young-Ik Son, Chung-Hwan Baek, Kwan-Hyuck Baek and Han-Sin Jeong
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:672
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  22. To examine the efficacy and safety of induction therapy with paclitaxel and bevacizumab followed by switch maintenance therapy with eribulin (ISMT) in Japanese patients with HER2-negative metastatic breast can...

    Authors: Kenichi Inoue, Jun Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Saito, Kei Kimizuka and Masafumi Kurosumi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:671
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  23. The breast cancer microenvironment promotes tumor vascularization through the complex interactions involving tumor-associated fibroblasts (TAFs). Emerging data indicate that TAFs increase production and signal...

    Authors: Justin Zonneville, Alfiya Safina, Alexander M. Truskinovsky, Carlos L. Arteaga and Andrei V. Bakin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:670
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  24. Blockade of PD-1 receptor may provide proof of concepts for the activity of an immune-modulation approach for the treatment of breast cancer (BC). Zoledronic acid (ZA) has been proven to inhibit angiogenesis, ...

    Authors: Yuan Li, Yang Du, Ting Sun, Huadan Xue, Zhengyu Jin and Jie Tian
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:669
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  25. Laparoscopic liver resection has been reported as a safe and effective approach for the management of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, its perioperative and oncological outcomes have not been evaluated...

    Authors: Jong Man Kim, Choon Hyuck David Kwon, Heejin Yoo, Kyeung-Sik Kim, Jisoo Lee, Kyunga Kim, Gyu-Seong Choi and Jae-Won Joh
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:668
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  26. This study aimed to explore the opinions of healthcare professionals regarding the management of men with advanced prostate cancer with particular emphasis on treatment timing and sequencing; treatment adverse...

    Authors: Rosa U. Greasley, Rebecca Turner, Karen Collins, Janet Brown, Liam Bourke and Derek J. Rosario
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:667
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  28. Gallbladder cancer is a rare malignancy of the biliary tract with a poor prognosis, frequently presenting at an advanced stage. While rare in the United States overall, gallbladder cancer has an elevated incid...

    Authors: Jacklyn M. Nemunaitis, Ursa Brown-Glabeman, Heloisa Soares, Jessica Belmonte, Ben Liem, Itzhak Nir, Victor Phuoc and Rama R. Gullapalli
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:665
    Content type: Review Published on:

  29. Diffusely infiltrating astrocytomas originate from astrocytic glial cells or their precursor cells and are the most common type of brain tumors in adults. In this retrospective study, we investigated the conte...

    Authors: Mari Valkonen, Hannu Haapasalo, Kirsi Rilla, Kristiina Tyynelä-Korhonen, Ylermi Soini and Sanna Pasonen-Seppänen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:664
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  30. Deletions of 6q15–16.1 are recurrently found in pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL). This chromosomal region includes the mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase 7 (MAP3K7) gene which has...

    Authors: David M. Cordas dos Santos, Juliane Eilers, Alfonso Sosa Vizcaino, Elena Orlova, Martin Zimmermann, Martin Stanulla, Martin Schrappe, Kathleen Börner, Dirk Grimm, Martina U. Muckenthaler, Andreas E. Kulozik and Joachim B. Kunz
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:663
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  31. RECQL is a number of the RecQ DNA helicase family and plays an important role in maintaining genome stability. Although several studies have reported that RECQL mutations were correlated with the susceptibilit...

    Authors: Huiying Xu, Ye Xu, Tao Ouyang, Jinfeng Li, Tianfeng Wang, Zhaoqing Fan, Tie Fan, Benyao Lin and Yuntao Xie
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:662
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  32. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the sixth most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Despite new technologies in diagnosis and treatment, the incidence and mortality ...

    Authors: Hongying Liu, Xieqi Wang, Bing Feng, Lipeng Tang, Weiping Li, Xirun Zheng, Ying Liu, Yan Peng, Guangjuan Zheng and Qinglian He
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:661
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  33. RUNX1 overlapping RNA (RUNXOR) is a long non-coding RNA that has been indicated as a key regulator in the development of myeloid cells by targeting runt-related transcription factor 1 (RUNX1). Myeloid-derived ...

    Authors: Xinyu Tian, Jie Ma, Ting Wang, Jie Tian, Yu Zheng, Rongrong Peng, Yungang Wang, Yue Zhang, Lingxiang Mao, Huaxi Xu and Shengjun Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:660
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  34. The gold standard for bladder cancer detection is cystoscopy, which is an invasive procedure that causes discomfort in patients. The currently available non-invasive approaches either show limited sensitivity ...

    Authors: Hao Liu, Wang He, Bo Wang, Kewei Xu, Jinli Han, Junjiong Zheng, Jun Ren, Lin Shao, Shiping Bo, Sijia Lu, Tianxin Lin and Jian Huang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:659
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  35. CHD5 is a conventional tumour-suppressing gene in many tumours. The aim of this study was to determine whether CHD5 variants contribute to the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

    Authors: Qin Xiao, Lianzhou Chen, Haiqing Luo, Hongmei Li, Qingming Kong, Fei Jiao, Shifeng Pang, Ming Zhang, Feifei Lan, Wenguo Fan, Hui Luo, Tao Tao and Xiao Zhu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:658
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  36. A previous report showed that a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonist (exenatide) induced apoptosis in endometrial cancer cells. However, the pathophysiological role of GLP-1R in endometrial cancer...

    Authors: Ranka Kanda, Haruko Hiraike, Osamu Wada-Hiraike, Takayuki Ichinose, Kazunori Nagasaka, Yuko Sasajima, Eiji Ryo, Tomoyuki Fujii, Yutaka Osuga and Takuya Ayabe
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:657
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  37. Recent evidence in cancer research, developed the notion that malignant tumors consist of different subpopulations of cells, one of them, known as cancer stem cells, being attributed many important properties ...

    Authors: Z. Kozovska, A. Patsalias, V. Bajzik, E. Durinikova, L. Demkova, S. Jargasova, B. Smolkova, J. Plava, L. Kucerova and M. Matuskova
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:656
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  38. Cervical dysplasia (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN)) is caused by Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and is most common in women of reproductive age. Current treatment of moderate to severe CIN is surgical. T...

    Authors: A. J. M. van de Sande, M. M. Koeneman, C. G. Gerestein, A. J. Kruse, F. J. van Kemenade and H. J. van Beekhuizen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:655
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  39. High triglycerides and low levels of high density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol are observed to promote tumor growth. However, whether breast cancer heterogeneity may explain the contradictory influence of tri...

    Authors: Trygve Lofterød, Elin S. Mortensen, Hawa Nalwoga, Tom Wilsgaard, Hanne Frydenberg, Terje Risberg, Anne Elise Eggen, Anne McTiernan, Sura Aziz, Erik A. Wist, Andreas Stensvold, Jon B. Reitan, Lars A. Akslen and Inger Thune
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:654
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  40. Although some countries have observed a stabilization in the incidence of CNS, an increasing incidence has been reported from multiple studies. Recent observations point out to the heterogeneity of incidence t...

    Authors: Camille Pouchieu, Anne Gruber, Emilie Berteaud, Patrice Ménégon, Pascal Monteil, Aymeri Huchet, Jean-Rodolphe Vignes, Anne Vital, Hugues Loiseau and Isabelle Baldi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:653
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  41. Rhabdomyosarcomas (RMSs) are the most frequent soft tissue sarcoma in children and adolescents, defined by skeletal muscle differentiation and the status of FOXO1 fusions. In pediatric malignancies, in particu...

    Authors: Giulia Bertolini, Luca Bergamaschi, Andrea Ferrari, Salvatore L. Renne, Paola Collini, Cecilia Gardelli, Marta Barisella, Giovanni Centonze, Stefano Chiaravalli, Cinzia Paolino, Massimo Milione, Maura Massimino, Michela Casanova and Patrizia Gasparini
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:652
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  42. Despite the clear endocrine-metabolic relationship between androgenic activity and adiposity, the role of androgens in breast cancer prognosis according to patient’s adiposity is scarcely explored. Here, we ai...

    Authors: Elisabetta Venturelli, Annalisa Orenti, Aline S. C. Fabricio, Giulia Garrone, Roberto Agresti, Biagio Paolini, Chiara Bonini, Massimo Gion, Franco Berrino, Christine Desmedt, Danila Coradini and Elia Biganzoli
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:651
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2018 18:876

  46. The BRCA1/2 mutation profile varies in Spain according to the geographical area studied. The mutational profile of BRCA1/2 in families at risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer has not so far been repor...

    Authors: Bella Pajares, Javier Porta, Jose María Porta, Cristina Fernández-de Sousa, Ignacio Moreno, Daniel Porta, Gema Durán, Tamara Vega, Inmaculada Ortiz, Carolina Muriel, Emilio Alba and Antonia Márquez
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:647
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  47. Synovial Sarcomas (SS) are rare tumors occurring predominantly in adolescent and young adults with a dismal prognosis in advanced phases. We report a first-in-human phase I of monoclonal antibody (OTSA-101) ta...

    Authors: Anne-Laure Giraudet, Philippe Alexandre Cassier, Chicaco Iwao-Fukukawa, Gwenaelle Garin, Jean-Noël Badel, David Kryza, Sylvie Chabaud, Laurence Gilles-Afchain, Gilles Clapisson, Claude Desuzinges, David Sarrut, Adrien Halty, Antoine Italiano, Masaharu Mori, Takuya Tsunoda, Toyomasa Katagiri…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:646
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  48. No standard of care is established for plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) and prognosis remains extremely poor, given that patients relapse early after chemotherapy and display resistance to commonly applied cytosta...

    Authors: Alessandro Broccoli, Laura Nanni, Vittorio Stefoni, Claudio Agostinelli, Lisa Argnani, Michele Cavo and Pier Luigi Zinzani
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:645
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  49. This study aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of drug eluting beads transarterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE) treatment by CalliSpheres® in Chinese patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) as we...

    Authors: Guan-Hui Zhou, Jun Han, Jun-Hui Sun, Yue-Lin Zhang, Tan-Yang Zhou, Chun-Hui Nie, Tong-Yin Zhu, Sheng-Qun Chen, Bao-Quan Wang, Zi-Niu Yu, Hong-Liang Wang, Li-Ming Chen, Wei-Lin Wang and Shu-Sen Zheng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:644
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  50. In human pulmonary malignancies, the SRY-box containing gene 30 (SOX30) is a known cancer-suppressing gene. Nevertheless, its molecular role and clinical effects remains unknown in bladder cancer.

    Authors: Yang Liu, Han Wang, Jianhua Zhong, Chenglong Wu, Gang Yang, Yuantang Zhong, Jinghua Zhang and Aifa Tang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:642
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