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  1. Repurposing existing medications for antineoplastic purposes can provide a safe, cost-effective, and efficacious means to further augment available cancer care. Clinical and preclinical studies suggest a role ...

    Authors: Jennifer M. Knight, Stephanie A. Kerswill, Parameswaran Hari, Steve W. Cole, Brent R. Logan, Anita D’Souza, Nirav N. Shah, Mary M. Horowitz, Melinda R. Stolley, Erica K. Sloan, Karen E. Giles, Erin S. Costanzo, Mehdi Hamadani, Saurabh Chhabra, Binod Dhakal and J. Douglas Rizzo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:593
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. There is increasing appreciation that non-cancer cells within the tumour microenvironment influence cancer progression and anti-cancer drug efficacy. For metastatic prostate cancer (PCa), the bone marrow micro...

    Authors: Eman Mosaad, Karen Chambers, Kathryn Futrega, Judith Clements and Michael Robert Doran
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:592
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  3. Knowledge about the expression and thus a role of enzymes that produce endogenous H2S - cystathionine-β-synthase, cystathionine γ-lyase and mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase - in renal tumors is still controvers...

    Authors: Jan Breza Jr, Andrea Soltysova, Sona Hudecova, Adela Penesova, Ivan Szadvari, Petr Babula, Barbora Chovancova, Lubomira Lencesova, Ondrej Pos, Jan Breza, Karol Ondrias and Olga Krizanova
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:591
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  4. The expression alterations of B4GALT1 have been noted in some types of cancer and they are related to cancer cell proliferation, invasiveness, metastasis, and drug resistance. We aimed to establish the express...

    Authors: Huyang Xie, Yu Zhu, Junyu Zhang, Zheng Liu, Hangcheng Fu, Yifan Cao, Gaoxiang Li, Yijun Shen, Bo Dai, Jiejie Xu and Dingwei Ye
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:590
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  6. Cancer antigen (CA) 125 (CA-125) is used in ovarian cancer detection and monitoring, whose serum level has a positive correlation with tumor stage. The aim of this study was to obtain a prediction metastasis e...

    Authors: Juan Fernando Sánchez Vega, Magdali del Rocío Murillo Bacilio, Adrián Santiago Vintimilla Condoy, Araceli Miroslava Palta González, José Alfredo Crespo Astudillo and Franklin Geovany Mora-Bravo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:587
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  7. CDCP1, a transmembrane protein with tumor pro-metastatic activity, was recently identified as a prognostic marker in TNBC, the most aggressive breast cancer subtype still lacking an effective molecular targete...

    Authors: Luca Forte, Federica Turdo, Cristina Ghirelli, Piera Aiello, Patrizia Casalini, Marilena Valeria Iorio, Elvira D’Ippolito, Patrizia Gasparini, Roberto Agresti, Beatrice Belmonte, Gabriella Sozzi, Lucia Sfondrini, Elda Tagliabue, Manuela Campiglio and Francesca Bianchi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:586
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  8. Little data exists predicting the resistance to actinomycin D (Act-D) single-agent for gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN). The objective was to determine the overall success of pulse Act-D and the facto...

    Authors: Lei Li, Xirun Wan, Fengzhi Feng, Tong Ren, Junjun Yang, Jun Zhao, Fang Jiang and Yang Xiang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:585
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  9. Carbonic anhydrase related proteins (CARPs) VIII, X and XI functionally differ from the other carbonic anhydrase (CA) enzymes. Structurally, they lack the zinc binding residues, which are important for enzyme ...

    Authors: Sini L. Karjalainen, Hannu K. Haapasalo, Ashok Aspatwar, Harlan Barker, Seppo Parkkila and Joonas A. Haapasalo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:584
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  10. The anti-tumor properties of cannabinoids have been investigated in many in vitro and in vivo studies. Many of these anti-tumor effects are mediated via cannabinoid receptor types 1 and 2 (CB1 and CB2), comprisin...

    Authors: Mohammed I. Khan, Anna A. Sobocińska, Klaudia K. Brodaczewska, Katarzyna Zielniok, Malgorzata Gajewska, Claudine Kieda, Anna M. Czarnecka and Cezary Szczylik
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:583
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  11. Patients with cancer develop endothelial dysfunction and subsequently display a higher risk of cardiovascular events. The aim of the present work was to examine changes in nitric oxide (NO)- and prostacyclin (PGI

    Authors: E. Buczek, A. Denslow, L. Mateuszuk, B. Proniewski, T. Wojcik, B. Sitek, A. Fedorowicz, A. Jasztal, E. Kus, A. Chmura- Skirlinska, R. Gurbiel, J. Wietrzyk and S. Chlopicki
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:582
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  12. All known mechanisms of apoptosis induced by resveratrol act through cell cycle arrest and changes in mitochondrial membrane potential. It is currently unknown whether resveratrol-induced apoptosis is associat...

    Authors: Yingying Fan, Jen-Fu Chiu, Jing Liu, Yan Deng, Cheng Xu, Jun Zhang and Guanwu Li
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:581
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  13. Lung cancer remains the top contributor to cancer-related mortality worldwide. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been reported to participate in normal development and tumorigenesis. LncRNA nuclear enriched ...

    Authors: Wu Zhou, Xing Chen, Qinghua Hu, Xuliang Chen, Yingji Chen and Lingjin Huang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:580
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  14. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) play a critical role in modulating the tumor microenvironment and promote tumor metastases. Our studies have demonstrated that ginsenoside Rh2 (G-Rh2), a monomeric compound ...

    Authors: Honglin Li, Nan Huang, Weikang Zhu, Jianchun Wu, Xiaohui Yang, Wenjing Teng, Jianhui Tian, Zhihong Fang, Yingbin Luo, Min Chen and Yan Li
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:579
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  15. Previous studies showed sanguinarine induced apoptosis in CRC cells but did not define the underlying mechanisms. The purpose of this work was to determine the in vivo and in vitro effects of sanguinarine on C...

    Authors: Xianling Gong, Zhihong Chen, Qinrui Han, Chunhui Chen, Linlin Jing, Yawei Liu, Liang Zhao, Xueqing Yao and Xuegang Sun
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:578
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  16. The right drug to the right patient at the right time is one of the ideals of Individualized Medicine (IM) and remains one of the most compelling promises of the post-genomic age. The addition of genomic infor...

    Authors: Michael T. Zimmermann, Terry M. Therneau and Jean-Pierre A. Kocher
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:577
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2018 18:743

  17. Lynch syndrome is an autosomal dominant inherited disease caused by germline mutations in mismatch repair genes. Analysis for microsatellite instability (MSI) and immunohistochemistry (IHC) of protein expressi...

    Authors: Takanori Yokoyama, Kazuhiro Takehara, Nao Sugimoto, Keika Kaneko, Etsuko Fujimoto, Mika Okazawa-Sakai, Shinichi Okame, Yuko Shiroyama, Takashi Yokoyama, Norihiro Teramoto, Shozo Ohsumi, Shinya Saito, Kazuho Imai and Kokichi Sugano
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:576
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  18. The objectives of this study were to build a normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) model of radiation-induced hypothyroidism (RHT) for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients and to compare it with oth...

    Authors: Ren Luo, Vincent W. C. Wu, Binghui He, Xiaoying Gao, Zhenxi Xu, Dandan Wang, Zhining Yang, Mei Li and Zhixiong Lin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:575
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  19. Immune surveillance acts as a defense mechanism in cancer, and its disruption is involved in cancer progression. DNA methylation reflects the phenotypic identity of cells and recent data suggested that DNA met...

    Authors: Surabhi Parashar, David Cheishvili, Niaz Mahmood, Ani Arakelian, Imrana Tanvir, Haseeb Ahmed Khan, Richard Kremer, Catalin Mihalcioiu, Moshe Szyf and Shafaat A. Rabbani
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:574
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  20. Standard treatment for unresectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) without distant metastasis is definitive chemoradiotherapy (dCRT), in which the incidence of esophageal fistula (EF) is reported to...

    Authors: Takeshi Kawakami, Takahiro Tsushima, Katsuhiro Omae, Hirofumi Ogawa, Hiromichi Shirasu, Yosuke Kito, Yukio Yoshida, Satoshi Hamauchi, Akiko Todaka, Nozomu Machida, Tomoya Yokota, Kentaro Yamazaki, Akira Fukutomi, Yusuke Onozawa and Hirofumi Yasui
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:573
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  21. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a frequent type of primary liver cancer, and its prevalence is increasing worldwide. Indeed, the underlying molecular mechanism is not well understood. Previous studies have s...

    Authors: Amit Kumar Ram, Biju Pottakat and Balasubramaniyan Vairappan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:572
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  22. Efforts have been made to classify Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) at surgically curable stages because molecular classification, which is prognostically informative, can accurately identify patients in need of...

    Authors: Sung-Min Ahn, Farhan Haq, Inkeun Park, Jean-Charles Nault, Jessica Zucman-Rossi and Eunsil Yu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:571
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  23. A-disintegrin and metalloproteinases (ADAMs) are members of a family of multidomain transmembrane and secreted proteins. Specific ADAMs are upregulated in human cancers and correlated with tumor progression an...

    Authors: Xiaodong Jiao, Wenlong Yu, Jianxin Qian, Ying Chen, Peilian Wei, Wenzheng Fang and Guanzhen Yu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:570
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  24. The smoothened (SMO) receptor is an essential component of the Sonic hedgehog (SHH) signalling, which is associated with the development of skin basal cell carcinoma (BCC). SMO inhibitors are indicated for BCC...

    Authors: Antoine Buetti-Dinh, Rebecca Jensen and Ran Friedman
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:569
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Inter-patient variability in response to opioids is well known but a comprehensive definition of its pathophysiological mechanism is still lacking and, more importantly, no studies have focused on children. Th...

    Authors: Ersilia Lucenteforte, Laura Vagnoli, Alessandra Pugi, Giada Crescioli, Niccolò Lombardi, Roberto Bonaiuti, Maurizio Aricò, Sabrina Giglio, Andrea Messeri, Alessandro Mugelli, Alfredo Vannacci and Valentina Maggini
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:568
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  26. Management of squamous cell carcinoma of the anus (SCCA) is becoming more relevant, as its incidence increases. The purpose of this study was to investigate possible differences in patient population and care ...

    Authors: Victor E. Pricolo, Matteo Bonvini and Carlo F. Abelli
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:567
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  27. Prospective trials have demonstrated the advantage of dose-escalated radiotherapy for the biochemical and clinical control of intermediate risk prostate cancer. Dose escalation improves outcomes but increases ...

    Authors: David Pasquier, Emilie Bogart, François Bonodeau, Thomas Lacornerie, Eric Lartigau and Igor Latorzeff
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:566
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  28. Cervical cancer is a global leading cause of morbidity and mortality, attributable to the death of approximately 266,000 women every year. Majority (87%) of cervical cancer deaths occur in developing countries...

    Authors: Mabula M. Mabelele, John Materu, Faraja D. Ng’ida and Michael J. Mahande
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:565
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  29. Ceramide synthesis and metabolism is a promising target in cancer drug development. γ-tocotrienol (GT3), a member of the vitamin E family, orchestrates multiple effects that ensure the induction of apoptosis i...

    Authors: Victoria E. Palau, Kanishka Chakraborty, Daniel Wann, Janet Lightner, Keely Hilton, Marianne Brannon, William Stone and Koyamangalath Krishnan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:564
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  30. The relatively low incidence of duodenal gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) and the unique anatomy make the surgical management and outcomes of this kind of tumor still under debate. Thus, this study aime...

    Authors: Zhen Liu, Gaozan Zheng, Jinqiang Liu, Shushang Liu, Guanghui Xu, Qiao Wang, Man Guo, Xiao Lian, Hongwei Zhang and Fan Feng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:563
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  31. A low cost and accurate method for detecting high-risk (HR) human papillomavirus (HPV) is important to permit HPV testing for cervical cancer prevention. We used a commercially available HPV method (H13, Hybri...

    Authors: Hong Lou, Eduardo Gharzouzi, Sarita Polo Guerra, Joël Fokom Domgue, Julie Sawitzke, Guillermo Villagran, Lisa Garland, Joseph F. Boland, Sarah Wagner, Héctor Rosas, Jami Troxler, Heidi McMillen, Bailey Kessing, Enrique Alvirez, Miriam Castillo, Hesler Morales…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:562
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2020 20:164

  32. Renal epithelioid angiomyolipomas (EAML) are rare tumors with aggressive behavior. EAML can be sporadic or develop within the tuberous sclerosis complex syndrome, where mutations of TSC1 or TSC2 genes (critical n...

    Authors: Marta Espinosa, Juan Maria Roldán-Romero, Ignacio Duran, Enrique de Álava, María Apellaniz-Ruiz, Alberto Cascón, Carmen Garrigos, Mercedes Robledo and Cristina Rodriguez-Antona
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:561
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  33. Neuroblastoma (NB) is a devastating disease. Despite recent advances in the treatment of NB, about 60% of high-risk NB will have relapse and therefore long-term event free survival is very minimal. We have rep...

    Authors: Selvi Kunnimalaiyaan, Victoriana K. Schwartz, Iris Alao Jackson, T. Clark Gamblin and Muthusamy Kunnimalaiyaan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:560
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  34. Glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase 1 (GOT1) regulates cellular metabolism through coordinating the utilization of carbohydrates and amino acids to meet nutrient requirements. KRAS mutated cancer cells were re...

    Authors: Xiaoshan Zhou, Sophie Curbo, Fuqiang Li, Shuba Krishnan and Anna Karlsson
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:559
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  35. The consensus is that a minimum of 12 lymph nodes should be analyzed at colectomy for colon cancer. However, right colon cancer and left colon cancer have different characteristics, and this threshold value fo...

    Authors: Lin Yang, Zhenchong Xiong, Qiankun Xie, Wenzhuo He, Shousheng Liu, Pengfei Kong, Chang Jiang, Guifang Guo and Liangping Xia
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:558
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  36. All women are potentially at risk of developing cervical cancer at some point in their life, yet it is avoidable cause of death among women in Sub- Saharan Africa with a world incidence of 530,000 every year. ...

    Authors: Hillary Mabeya, Sonia Menon, Steven Weyers, Violet Naanyu, Emily Mwaliko, Elijah Kirop, Omenge Orango, Heleen Vermandere and Davy Vanden Broeck
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:557
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  37. Tumors develop multiple mechanisms of immune evasion as they progress, with some cancer types being inherently better at ‘hiding’ than others. With an increased understanding of tumor immune surveillance, immu...

    Authors: Joshua P. Bates, Roshanak Derakhshandeh, Laundette Jones and Tonya J. Webb
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:556
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  38. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) can influence patient outcome such as drug response and toxicity after drug intervention. The purpose of this study is to develop a systematic pathway approach to accurat...

    Authors: Vachiranee Limviphuvadh, Chee Seng Tan, Fumikazu Konishi, Piroon Jenjaroenpun, Joy Shengnan Xiang, Yuliya Kremenska, Yar Soe Mu, Nicholas Syn, Soo Chin Lee, Ross A. Soo, Frank Eisenhaber, Sebastian Maurer-Stroh and Wei Peng Yong
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:555
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  39. High resolution anoscopy (HRA) examination is regarded as the best method for the management of anal high grade squamous intraepithelial lesions to prevent anal squamous carcinoma. However, little is known abo...

    Authors: Anke De-Masi, Esther Davis, Tamzin Cuming, Noreen Chindawi, Francesca Pesola, Carmelina Cappello, Susan Chambers, Julie Bowring, Adam N. Rosenthal, Peter Sasieni and Mayura Nathan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:554
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  40. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) isoforms, particularly the diffusible VEGF-121, could play a major role in the response of recurrent glioblastoma (GB) to anti-angiogenetic treatment with bevacizumab....

    Authors: Maurizio Martini, Ivana de Pascalis, Quintino Giorgio D’Alessandris, Vincenzo Fiorentino, Francesco Pierconti, Hany El-Sayed Marei, Lucia Ricci-Vitiani, Roberto Pallini and Luigi Maria Larocca
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:553
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  41. It is frequently asked whether chemotherapy can still play a role in metastatic melanoma considering the effectiveness of the available drugs today, including antiCTLA4/antiPD1 immunotherapy and antiBRAF/antiM...

    Authors: Michele Guida, Stefania Tommasi, Sabino Strippoli, Maria Iole Natalicchio, Simona De Summa, Rosamaria Pinto, Antonio Cramarossa, Anna Albano, Salvatore Pisconti, Michele Aieta, Ruggiero Ridolfi, Amalia Azzariti, Gabriella Guida, Vito Lorusso and Giusepe Colucci
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:552
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  42. Multiple myeloma (MM), like other cancers, is caused by the accumulation of genetic abnormalities. Heterogeneity exists in the patients’ response to treatments, for example, bortezomib. This urges efforts to i...

    Authors: Xinyan Zhang, Bingzong Li, Huiying Han, Sha Song, Hongxia Xu, Yating Hong, Nengjun Yi and Wenzhuo Zhuang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:551
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  43. Liver cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths and characterized by heterogeneity and drug resistance. Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models have been widely used in cancer research because...

    Authors: Sheng He, Bo Hu, Chao Li, Ping Lin, Wei-Guo Tang, Yun-Fan Sun, Fang-You-Min Feng, Wei Guo, Jia Li, Yang Xu, Qian-Lan Yao, Xin Zhang, Shuang-Jian Qiu, Jian Zhou, Jia Fan, Yi-Xue Li…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:550
    Content type: Database Published on:

  44. While data from several studies over the last decade has demonstrated that introduction of immunologic checkpoint blockage therapy with anti-CTLA-4/PD-1 drugs leads to improved survival in metastatic melanoma ...

    Authors: Marin A. McDonald, Parag Sanghvi, Julie Bykowski and Gregory A. Daniels
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:549
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  45. Pathologic response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (neoCTX) is a prognostic factor in many cancer types, and early prediction would help to modify treatment. In patients with gastric and esophagogastric junction ...

    Authors: Paul M. Schneider, Dilmurodjon Eshmuminov, Tamara Rordorf, Diana Vetter, Patrick Veit-Haibach, Achim Weber, Peter Bauerfeind, Panagiotis Samaras and Kuno Lehmann
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:548
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  46. S-1 plus oxaliplatin(SOX) has been demonstrated to be effective and well tolerated for patients with metastatic gastric cancer. We conducted this phase II study to evaluate the feasibility of SOX as adjuvant c...

    Authors: Guoxiu Wang, Jiuda Zhao, Yan Song, Wen Zhang, Yongkun Sun, Aiping Zhou, Jing Huang, Feng Du and Lin Yang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:547
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening more frequently detects early stage prostate cancer (PC). However, adverse pathologic features (APFs) after radical prostatectomy (RP) in low-risk PC occur. Previous r...

    Authors: Jae Won Park, Dong Hoon Koh, Won Sik Jang, Kang Su Cho, Won Sik Ham, Koon Ho Rha, Sung Joon Hong and Young Deuk Choi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:545
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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