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  1. Racial disparities exist in the care provided to advanced cancer patients. This article describes an investigation designed to advance the science of healthcare disparities by isolating the effects of patient ...

    Authors: Cezanne M. Elias, Cleveland G. Shields, Jennifer J. Griggs, Kevin Fiscella, Sharon L. Christ, Joseph Colbert, Stephen G. Henry, Beth G. Hoh, Haslyn E. R. Hunte, Mary Marshall, Supriya Gupta Mohile, Sandy Plumb, Mohamedtaki A. Tejani, Alison Venuti and Ronald M. Epstein
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:575
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  2. The squamous cell carcinoma of the anus (SCCA) is a rare disease, but its incidence is markedly increasing. About 15% of patients are diagnosed at metastatic stage, and more than 20% with a localized disease t...

    Authors: Stefano Kim, Marine Jary, Thierry André, Véronique Vendrely, Bruno Buecher, Eric François, François-Clément Bidard, Sarah Dumont, Emmanuelle Samalin, Didier Peiffert, Simon Pernot, Nabil Baba-Hamed, Farid El Hajbi, Olivier Bouché, Jérôme Desrame, Aurélie Parzy…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:574
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  3. Elderly patient with advanced cancer is one of the most vulnerable populations. Skeletal muscle depletion during chemotherapy may have substantial impact on their physical function. However, there is little in...

    Authors: Tateaki Naito, Taro Okayama, Takashi Aoyama, Takuya Ohashi, Yoshiyuki Masuda, Madoka Kimura, Hitomi Shiozaki, Haruyasu Murakami, Hirotsugu Kenmotsu, Tetsuhiko Taira, Akira Ono, Kazushige Wakuda, Hisao Imai, Takuya Oyakawa, Takeshi Ishii, Shota Omori…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:571
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  5. Studies have indicated a pervasive pattern of decreasing healthcare costs during elderly patients’ last year of life. The aim of this study was to explore the predictors of high healthcare costs (HC) in elderl...

    Authors: Jui-Kun Chiang and Yee-Hsin Kao
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:568
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  6. This study aimed to evaluate the long-term outcome and toxicities in patients with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) treated by concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) with/without adding cetu...

    Authors: Yang Li, Qiu-Yan Chen, Lin-Quan Tang, Li-Ting Liu, Shan-Shan Guo, Ling Guo, Hao-Yuan Mo, Ming-Yuan Chen, Xiang Guo, Ka-Jia Cao, Chao-Nan Qian, Mu-Shen Zeng, Jin-Xin Bei, Jian-Yong Shao, Ying Sun, Jing Tan…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:567
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  8. Maintenance therapy (MT) with pemetrexed has been shown to improve overall and progression-free survival of patients with non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), without impairing patients’ health-rel...

    Authors: Monika Sztankay, Johannes Maria Giesinger, August Zabernigg, Elisabeth Krempler, Georg Pall, Wolfgang Hilbe, Otto Burghuber, Maximilian Hochmair, Gerhard Rumpold, Stephan Doering and Bernhard Holzner
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:565
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  9. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and potential benefit of a brief psychosocial intervention based on cognitive-behavioral therapy performed in addition to early palliative care (PC) in the r...

    Authors: Thamires Monteiro do Carmo, Bianca Sakamoto Ribeiro Paiva, Cleyton Zanardo de Oliveira, Maria Salete de Angelis Nascimento and Carlos Eduardo Paiva
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:564
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  11. Previous studies have investigated the protective effect of vitamin D serum levels, at diagnosis and during the follow-up period after treatment, on melanoma outcome. In the present study we assess whether vit...

    Authors: J. De Smedt, S. Van Kelst, V. Boecxstaens, M. Stas, K. Bogaerts, D. Vanderschueren, C. Aura, K. Vandenberghe, D. Lambrechts, P. Wolter, O. Bechter, A. Nikkels, T. Strobbe, G. Emri, V. Marasigan and M. Garmyn
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:562
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  13. The effect of early palliative care and rehabilitation on the quality of life of patients with advanced cancer has been only sparsely described and needs further investigation. In the present trial we combine ...

    Authors: Lise Nottelmann, Mogens Groenvold, Tove Bahn Vejlgaard, Morten Aagaard Petersen and Lars Henrik Jensen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:560
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  14. The global burden of hematologic malignancy (HM) is rapidly rising with aging, exposure to polluted environments, and global and local climate variability all being well-established conditions of oxidative str...

    Authors: Mireille Solange Nganga Nkanga, Benjamin Longo-Mbenza, Oladele Vincent Adeniyi, Jacques Bikaula Ngwidiwo, Antoine Lufimbo Katawandja, Paul Roger Beia Kazadi and Alain Nganga Nzonzila
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:559
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  15. The relationship between the number of harvested lymph nodes (HLNs) and prognosis of gastric cancer patients without an involvement of lymph nodes has not been well-evaluated. The objective of this study is to...

    Authors: Xin Ji, Zhao-De Bu, Zi-Yu Li, Ai-Wen Wu, Lian-Hai Zhang, Ji Zhang, Xiao-Jiang Wu, Xiang-Long Zong, Shuang-Xi Li, Fei Shan, Zi-Yu Jia and Jia-Fu Ji
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:558
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  16. Various studies have reported that the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in the serum (sNLR) may serve as a cost-effective and useful prognostic factor in patients with various cancer types. However, no study has...

    Authors: Yong Seok Lee, Hae-Seong Nam, Jun Hyeok Lim, Jung Soo Kim, Yeonsook Moon, Jae Hwa Cho, Jeong-Seon Ryu, Seung Min Kwak and Hong Lyeol Lee
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:557
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  17. No scientific consensus has been reached on whether active tobacco smoking causes breast cancer. We examine the association between active smoking and breast cancer risk in Denmark, which has some of the highe...

    Authors: Zorana Jovanovic Andersen, Jeanette Therming Jørgensen, Randi Grøn, Elvira Vaclavik Brauner and Elsebeth Lynge
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:556
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  18. The Empty Spiracles Homeobox (EMX-) 2 gene has been associated with regulation of growth and differentiation in neuronal development. While recent studies provide evidence that EMX2 regulates tumorigenesis of ...

    Authors: Berk Aykut, Markus Ochs, Praveen Radhakrishnan, Adrian Brill, Hermine Höcker, Sandra Schwarz, Daniel Weissinger, Roland Kehm, Yakup Kulu, Alexis Ulrich and Martin Schneider
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:555
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  19. Intraoperative blood loss during hepatectomy worsens prognosis, and various tools have been used to improve perioperative safety and feasibility. We aimed to retrospectively evaluate the feasibility and safety...

    Authors: Yi-jun Zhao, Da-chen Zhou, Fu-bao Liu, Hong-chuan Zhao, Guo-bin Wang and Xiao-ping Geng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:554
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  20. Opioid receptors have become increasingly implicated in cancer progression and long-term patient outcomes. However, the expression and significance of the κ-opioid receptor (KOR) in hepatocellular carcinoma (H...

    Authors: Dongtai Chen, Yonghua Chen, Yan Yan, Jiahao Pan, Wei Xing, Qiang Li and Weian Zeng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:553
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  21. Following esophagectomy, esophageal cancer patients experience a clinically relevant deterioration of health-related quality of life, both on the short- and long-term. With the currently growing number of esop...

    Authors: Jonna K. van Vulpen, Peter D. Siersema, Richard van Hillegersberg, Grard A. P. Nieuwenhuijzen, Ewout A. Kouwenhoven, Richard P. R. Groenendijk, Donald L. van der Peet, Eric J. Hazebroek, Camiel Rosman, Carlo C. G. Schippers, Elles Steenhagen, Petra H. M. Peeters and Anne M. May
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:552
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  22. Adoptive T-cell therapy relying on conventional T cells transduced with T-cell receptors (TCRs) or chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) has caused substantial tumor regression in several clinical trials. However,...

    Authors: Dennis C. Harrer, Bianca Simon, Shin-ichiro Fujii, Kanako Shimizu, Ugur Uslu, Gerold Schuler, Kerstin F. Gerer, Stefanie Hoyer, Jan Dörrie and Niels Schaft
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:551
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  23. Community misconception of what causes cancer is an important consideration when devising communication strategies around cancer prevention, while those initiating social marketing campaigns must decide whethe...

    Authors: Rebecca Kippen, Erica James, Bernadette Ward, Penny Buykx, Ardel Shamsullah, Wendy Watson and Kathy Chapman
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:550
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  24. New generation hormone-therapies (NGHT) targeting the androgen signalling pathway are nowadays proposed to elderly patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPCa). The impact of these tre...

    Authors: Marie Lange, Heidi Laviec, Hélène Castel, Natacha Heutte, Alexandra Leconte, Isabelle Léger, Bénédicte Giffard, Aurélie Capel, Martine Dubois, Bénédicte Clarisse, Elodie Coquan, Frédéric Di Fiore, Sophie Gouérant, Philippe Bartélémy, Laure Pierard, Karim Fizazi…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:549
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2018 18:110

  25. Metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) is a disease of older age, but there is a relative lack of knowledge about effects of chemotherapy in older patients as they are under-represented in clinical trials. Little...

    Authors: Stine Braendegaard Winther, Pia Österlund, Åke Berglund, Bengt Glimelius, Camilla Qvortrup, Halfdan Sorbye and Per Pfeiffer
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:548
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  26. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) directed therapies are being used in a large number of advanced tumors. Metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) is highly dependent on the VEGF pathway; VEGF receptor (...

    Authors: Sylvie Négrier, David Pérol, Rastislav Bahleda, Antoine Hollebecque, Etienne Chatelut, Helen Boyle, Philippe Cassier, Séverine Metzger, Ellen Blanc, Jean-Charles Soria and Bernard Escudier
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:547
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  27. During cancer progression, epithelial cancer cells can be reprogrammed into mesenchymal-like cells with increased migratory potential through the process of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), representin...

    Authors: Lucia Sommerova, Eva Ondrouskova, Borivoj Vojtesek and Roman Hrstka
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:546
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  28. Real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has become an increasingly important technique for gene expression profiling because it can provide insights into complex biological and pathological processes and be ...

    Authors: Xi Wu, Susu Liu, Jianjun Lyu, Shuya Zhou, Yanwei Yang, Chenfei Wang, Wenda Gu, Qin Zuo, Baowen Li and Changfa Fan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:545
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  29. The levels of liver function tests (LFTs) are often used to assess liver injury and non-liver disease-related mortality. In our study, the relationship between pretreatment serum LFTs and overall survival (OS)...

    Authors: Hao Huang, Xue-Ping Wang, Xiao-Hui Li, Hao Chen, Xin Zheng, Jian-Hua Lin, Ting Kang, Lin Zhang and Pei-Song Chen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:544
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  30. Uptake of colorectal cancer screening is low in the English NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP). Participation in screening is strongly associated with socioeconomic status. The aim of this study was t...

    Authors: Samuel G. Smith, Jane Wardle, Wendy Atkin, Rosalind Raine, Lesley M. McGregor, Gemma Vart, Steve Morris, Stephen W. Duffy, Susan Moss, Allan Hackshaw, Stephen Halloran, Ines Kralj-Hans, Rosemary Howe, Julia Snowball, Graham Handley, Richard F. Logan…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:543
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  31. Chronic angiogenesis is a hallmark of most tumors and takes place in a hostile tumor microenvironment (TME) characterized by hypoxia, low nutrient and glucose levels, elevated lactate and low pH. Despite this,...

    Authors: A. K. Pedersen, J. Mendes Lopes de Melo, N. Mørup, K. Tritsaris and S. F. Pedersen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:542
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  32. To assess the outcomes and prognostic factors associated with palliative external beam radiotherapy (EBRT), administered to patients with advanced gastric cancer.

    Authors: Yun Hee Lee, Jeong Won Lee and Hong Seok Jang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:541
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2018 18:232

  33. Mutations of the DNA repair proteins BRCA1/2 are synthetically lethal with the DNA repair enzyme poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), which when inhibited, leads to cell death due to the absence of compensatory...

    Authors: Zhor Senhaji Mouhri, Elliot Goodfellow and Bertrand Jean-Claude
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:540
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  34. Angipoietin-1 activation of the tyrosine kinase receptor Tek expressed mainly on endothelial cells leads to survival and stabilization of endothelial cells. Studies have shown that Angiopoietin-1 counteracts p...

    Authors: Iacovos P. Michael, Martina Orebrand, Marta Lima, Beatriz Pereira, Olga Volpert, Susan E. Quaggin and Marie Jeansson
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:539
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  35. Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a B-cell hemopathy characterized by the t(11;14) translocation and the aberrant overexpression of cyclin D1. This results in an unrestrained cell proliferation. Other genetic alte...

    Authors: Khaoula Ben Younes, Simon Body, Élodie Costé, Pierre-Julien Viailly, Hadjer Miloudi, Clémence Coudre, Fabrice Jardin, Fatma Ben Aissa-Fennira and Brigitte Sola
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:538
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  36. A new 5-tiered grading grouping system has recently been endorsed for reporting of prostate cancer (PCa) grade to better reflect escalating risk of progression and cancer death. While several validations of th...

    Authors: K. R. Beckmann, A. D. Vincent, M. E. O’Callaghan, P. Cohen, S. Chang, M. Borg, S. M. Evans, D. M. Roder and K. L. Moretti
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:537
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  37. Hotspot mutations of the oncogenes BRAF and NRAS are the most common genetic alterations in cutaneous melanoma. Specific inhibitors of BRAF and MEK have shown significant survival benefits in large phase III t...

    Authors: Markus V. Heppt, Timo Siepmann, Jutta Engel, Gabriele Schubert-Fritschle, Renate Eckel, Laura Mirlach, Thomas Kirchner, Andreas Jung, Anja Gesierich, Thomas Ruzicka, Michael J. Flaig and Carola Berking
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:536
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  38. Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models are important tools in precision medicine and for the development of targeted therapies to treat cancer patients. This study aimed to evaluate our precision medicine stra...

    Authors: Doo-Yi Oh, Kyungsoo Jung, Ji-Young Song, Seokhwi Kim, Sang Shin, Yong-Jun Kwon, Ensel Oh, Woong-Yang Park, Sang Yong Song and Yoon-La Choi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:535
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  39. The incidence of acute erythroid leukemia subtype (AEL) is rare, accounting for 5% of cases of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and the outcome is dismal. However, in 2016 revision to the WHO classification, the ...

    Authors: Shaowei Qiu, Erlie Jiang, Hui Wei, Dong Lin, Guangji Zhang, Shuning Wei, Chunlin Zhou, Kaiqi Liu, Ying Wang, Bingcheng Liu, Yuntao Liu, Benfa Gong, Xiaoyuan Gong, Sizhou Feng, Yingchang Mi, Mingzhe Han…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:534
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  41. Insulin-like growth factors and insulin are important factors promoting cancer growth and metastasis. The molecules act through IGF1 (IGF1R) and insulin (InsR) receptors. Rhambodmyosarcomas (RMS) overproduce I...

    Authors: Maciej Tarnowski, Marta Tkacz, Katarzyna Zgutka, Joanna Bujak, Patrycja Kopytko and Andrzej Pawlik
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:532
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  42. Human papillomavirus (HPV) is associated with the genesis of cervical carcinoma. The co-infection among HPV genotypes is frequent, but the clinical significance is controversial; in Mexico, the prevalence and ...

    Authors: Jazbet Gallegos-Bolaños, Jessica Alejandra Rivera-Domínguez, José Miguel Presno-Bernal and Rodolfo Daniel Cervantes-Villagrana
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:531
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  43. The independent prognostic role of squamous differentiation in pT1 bladder urothelial carcinoma has not been reported in previous studies. This article describes the impact of squamous differentiation on tumor...

    Authors: Gang Li, Jianpeng Yu, Hualin Song, Shimiao Zhu, Libin Sun, Zhiqun Shang and Yuanjie Niu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:530
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  44. Radical prostatectomy is the most common treatment for localised prostate cancer in New Zealand. Active surveillance was introduced to prevent overtreatment and reduce costs while preserving the option of radi...

    Authors: Chunhuan Lao, Richard Edlin, Paul Rouse, Charis Brown, Michael Holmes, Peter Gilling and Ross Lawrenson
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:529
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  45. 177Lu-octreotate can be used to treat somatostatin receptor expressing neuroendocrine tumors. It is highly effective in animal models, but clinical studies have so far only demonstrate...

    Authors: Johan Spetz, Britta Langen, Nils Rudqvist, Toshima Z. Parris, Khalil Helou, Ola Nilsson and Eva Forssell-Aronsson
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:528
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  46. Microvesicles are small vesicles expressing specific antigens from their cells of origin. Elevated levels of microvesicles have been shown to be associated with coagulation disorders as well as with different ...

    Authors: A. Fricke, P. V. Ullrich, A. F. V. Cimniak, C. Becherer, M. Follo, J. Heinz, J. Scholber, G. W. Herget, O. Hauschild, U. A. Wittel, G. B. Stark, H. Bannasch, D. Braig and S. U. Eisenhardt
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:527
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  47. Bleomycin-induced lung injury, a major complication of chemotherapy for germ cell tumors, occasionally fails to respond to the standard treatment with corticosteroids and develops into severe respiratory insuf...

    Authors: Koji Sakamoto, Satoru Ito, Naozumi Hashimoto and Yoshinori Hasegawa
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:526
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  48. Solid papillary carcinoma (SPC) is a rare variant of breast papillary carcinoma with unique pathological morphology and biological behavior. There is only one case report on T1-MRI of SPC. In this study, we repor...

    Authors: Lina Zhang, Ling Zhuang, Chang Shi, Yanwei Miao, Weisheng Zhang, Qingwei Song, Jianyun Kang, Zhijin Lang, Xuegang Xin, Ailian Liu and Jiani Hu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:525
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  49. There is controversy regarding how comorbidity impacts on colorectal cancer screening, especially in the context of organised programmes. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of comorbidities on parti...

    Authors: Carolina Guiriguet, Guillem Pera, Antoni Castells, Pere Toran, Jaume Grau, Irene Rivero, Andrea Buron, Francesc Macià, Carmen Vela-Vallespín, Mercedes Vilarrubí-Estrella and Mercedes Marzo-Castillejo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:524
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  50. The treatment of Philadelphia chromosome-positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (Ph+ ALL) patients who harbor the T315I BCR-ABL1 mutation or who have two or more mutations in the same BCR-ABL1 molecule is parti...

    Authors: Caterina De Benedittis, Cristina Papayannidis, Claudia Venturi, Maria Chiara Abbenante, Stefania Paolini, Sarah Parisi, Chiara Sartor, Michele Cavo, Giovanni Martinelli and Simona Soverini
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:523
    Content type: Case report Published on:

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