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  1. In 2012 a new cancer patient pathway for patients with non-specific symptoms and signs of cancer (NSSC-CPP) was introduced in Denmark. Limited information is available about the patients referred to the NSSC-C...

    Authors: Sara Falk Jørgensen, Pernille Ravn, Søren Thorsen and Signe Westring Worm
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:809
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) exhibit essential regulatory functions related to cell growth, apoptosis, development and differentiation. Dysregulated expression of miRNAs is associated with a wide variety of human diseas...

    Authors: Guanyu Wang, Fulu Dong, Zhiyao Xu, Sherven Sharma, Xiaotong Hu, Dafang Chen, Lumin Zhang, Jinping Zhang and Qinghua Dong
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:805
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Breast cancer is the most common malignancy accounting for 25% of all cancers in females. In Africa, breast cancer prevalence and mortality are steadily increasing. Knowledge of hormone receptors and human epi...

    Authors: Asmerom Tesfamariam Sengal, Nada Suliman Haj-Mukhtar, Ahmed Mohammed Elhaj, Shahinaz Bedri, Eva Johanna Kantelhardt and Ahmed A. Mohamedani
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:804
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  4. Breast cancer is one of the most common cancer and a leading cause of death in women. Up to date the most commonly used breast cancer cell lines are originating from Caucasians or Afro-Americans but rarely cel...

    Authors: Rizwan Ali, Nosaibah Samman, Hajar Al Zahrani, Atef Nehdi, Sabhi Rahman, Abdul Latif Khan, Mohamed Al Balwi, Lolwah Abdullah Alriyees, Manal Alzaid, Ahmed Al Askar and Mohamed Boudjelal
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:803
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  5. Transcriptomic profiling of breast tumors provides opportunity for subtyping and molecular-based patient stratification. In diagnostic applications the specimen profiled should be representative of the express...

    Authors: Govindasamy-Muralidharan Karthik, Mattias Rantalainen, Gustav Stålhammar, John Lövrot, Ikram Ullah, Amjad Alkodsi, Ran Ma, Lena Wedlund, Johan Lindberg, Jan Frisell, Jonas Bergh and Johan Hartman
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:802
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  6. Acute gastric volvulus (GV) is a rare disease with high mortality rate often associated with anatomic abnormalities. Thymoma is the most common neoplasm located in the anterior mediastinum. There is no reporte...

    Authors: Ailing Liu, Xin Gao and Lin Zhao
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:801
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  7. Cancer cachexia in elderly patients may substantially impact physical function and medical dependency. The aim of this study was to estimate the impact of cachexia on activity of daily living (ADL), length of ...

    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 17:800
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Female breast cancer is frequently diagnosed at a later stage and the leading cause of cancer deaths world-wide. Levels of cell-free circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) can potentially be used as biomarkers to meas...

    Authors: Amal Qattan, Haya Intabli, Wafa Alkhayal, Chafica Eltabache, Taher Tweigieri and Suad Bin Amer
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:799
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. In Europe, treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) with panitumumab requires prior confirmation of RAS wild-type mutation status. Two studies – a physician survey and a medical records review (MRR) – wer...

    Authors: J. Han van Krieken, George Kafatos, James Bennett, Laurent Mineur, Jiří Tomášek, Etienne Rouleau, Pavel Fabian, Giovanna De Maglio, Pilar García-Alfonso, Giuseppe Aprile, Parijan Parkar, Gerald Downey, Gaston Demonty and Jörg Trojan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:798
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. There have been few data on the chemotherapy in elderly advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with poor performance status (PS), and usefulness of chemotherapy for such patients remains unclear....

    Authors: Satoshi Ikeda, Hiroshige Yoshioka, Satoshi Ikeo, Mitsunori Morita, Naoyuki Sone, Takashi Niwa, Akihiro Nishiyama, Toshihide Yokoyama, Akimasa Sekine, Takashi Ogura and Tadashi Ishida
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:797
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  11. Subjective cognitive impairment can be a significant and prevalent problem for gynaecological cancer survivors. The aims of this study were to assess subjective cognitive functioning in gynaecological cancer s...

    Authors: Yingchun Zeng, Andy S. K. Cheng, Ting Song, Xiujie Sheng, Yang Zhang, Xiangyu Liu and Chetwyn C. H. Chan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:796
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  12. As the important suppressor of P53, iASPP is found to be overexpressed in leukemia, and functions as oncogene that inhibited apoptosis of leukemia cells. Sertad1 is identified as one of the proteins that can b...

    Authors: Shaowei Qiu, Shuang Liu, Tengteng Yu, Jing Yu, Min Wang, Qing Rao, Haiyan Xing, Kejing Tang, Yinchang Mi and Jianxiang Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:795
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  13. Utilisation of radiation therapy for regional Australia and around the world has been the focus of much health policy the last decade. Radiation therapy centres have been built in Australian regional and rural...

    Authors: Sandra C. Thompson, Shelley Cheetham and Siddhartha Baxi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:794
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  14. Despite smoking and risky alcohol drinking being modifiable risk factors for cancer as well as postoperative complications, perioperative cessation counselling is often ignored. Little is known about how cance...

    Authors: Susanne Vahr Lauridsen, Thordis Thomsen, Gudrun Kaldan, Line Noes Lydom and Hanne Tønnesen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:793
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  15. There is a dramatic rise in the incidence of Human papillomavirus (HPV) – associated head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) in the world, with considerable variation by geography, gender and ethnicity. ...

    Authors: Mushfiq H. Shaikh, Aminul I. Khan, Anwar Sadat, Ahmed H. Chowdhury, Shahed A. Jinnah, Vinod Gopalan, Alfred K. Lam, Daniel T. W. Clarke, Nigel A. J. McMillan and Newell W. Johnson
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:792
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  16. Where resources are available, the World Health Organization recommends cervical cancer screening with human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing and subsequent treatment of HPV-positive women with timely cryother...

    Authors: Nicole G. Campos, Vivien Tsu, Jose Jeronimo, Mercy Mvundura and Jane J. Kim
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:791
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Novel theranostic options for high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer are urgently needed. This requires a thorough evaluation of experimental approaches in animal models best possibly reflecting human di...

    Authors: Doreen Huebner, Christiane Rieger, Ralf Bergmann, Martin Ullrich, Sebastian Meister, Marieta Toma, Ralf Wiedemuth, Achim Temme, Vladimir Novotny, Manfred P. Wirth, Michael Bachmann, Jens Pietzsch and Susanne Fuessel
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:790
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  18. The magnitude and rapidity of the tumor response to androgen deprivation is known to predict the durability of the therapy. We have investigated the predictive value of categorizing patients by the half-life o...

    Authors: Yong Jin Kang, Won Sik Jang, Jong Kyou Kwon, Cheol Yong Yoon, Joo Yong Lee, Won Sik Ham and Young Deuk Choi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:789
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. To evaluate the incidence of neck muscle spasm in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients that received intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), and to analyse the patient- and treatment-related risk factors a...

    Authors: Lu-Lu Zhang, Guan-Qun Zhou, Zhen-Yu Qi, Xiao-Jun He, Jia-Xiang Li, Ling-Long Tang, Yan-Ping Mao, Ai-Hua Lin, Jun Ma and Ying Sun
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:788
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  20. Colorectal cancer is a heterogeneous group of malignancies with complex molecular subtypes. While colon cancer has been widely investigated, studies on rectal cancer are very limited. Here, we performed multi-...

    Authors: Mingshan Liu, Yang Liu, Jiabo Di, Zhe Su, Hong Yang, Beihai Jiang, Zaozao Wang, Meng Zhuang, Fan Bai and Xiangqian Su
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:787
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. ESR1 mutations have attracted attention as a potentially important marker and treatment target in endocrine therapy-resistant breast cancer patients. The E380Q mutation, which is one o...

    Authors: Takashi Takeshita, Yutaka Yamamoto, Mutsuko Yamamoto-Ibusuki, Aiko Sueta, Mai Tomiguchi, Keiichi Murakami, Yoko Omoto and Hirotaka Iwase
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:786
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  22. In recent years growing interest has been posed on alternative ways to screen women for breast cancer involving different imaging techniques or adjusting screening interval by breast cancer risk estimates. A n...

    Authors: Livia Giordano, Federica Gallo, Elisabetta Petracci, Giovanna Chiorino and Nereo Segnan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:785
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  23. The KHP PCaBB was established in 2013 and recruits donors from the Urology or Oncology Departments at Guy’s Hospital in London (UK). Prostate cancer patients may be approached to give their consent for biobank...

    Authors: S. R. Saifuddin, W. Devlies, A. Santaolalla, F. Cahill, G. George, D. Enting, S. Rudman, P. Cathcart, B. Challacombe, P. Dasgupta, C. Galustian, A. Chandra, S. Chowdhury, C. Gillett and M. Van Hemelrijck
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:784
    Content type: Database Published on:

  24. Among colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors, how the prior tumor location affects the risk of subsequent primary colorectal cancer (SPCRC) and the outcome of those suffering from SPCRC remain unknown.

    Authors: Jiao Yang, Xianglin L. Du, Shuting Li, Yinying Wu, Meng Lv, Danfeng Dong, Lingxiao Zhang, Zheling Chen, Biyuan Wang, Fan Wang, Yanwei Shen, Enxiao Li, Min Yi and Jin Yang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:783
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  25. Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most frequently diagnosed digestive tract cancers and carries a high risk of mortality. Acetaldehyde (AA), a carcinogenic intermediate of ethanol metabolism contributes to the...

    Authors: Sudakshina Ghosh, Biswabandhu Bankura, Soumee Ghosh, Makhan Lal Saha, Arup Kumar Pattanayak, Souvik Ghatak, Manalee Guha, Senthil Kumar Nachimuthu, Chinmoy Kumar Panda, Suvendu Maji, Subrata Chakraborty, Biswanath Maity and Madhusudan Das
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:782
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  26. To evaluate the role of ablative radiotherapy doses in the treatment of hilar or intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (CCC) using stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT).

    Authors: Eleni Gkika, Lukas Hallauer, Simon Kirste, Sonja Adebahr, Nico Bartl, Hannes Philipp Neeff, Ralph Fritsch, Volker Brass, Ursula Nestle, Anca Ligia Grosu and Thomas Baptist Brunner
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:781
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  27. Recommending the optimal treatment for an individual patient requires a well-balanced consideration of various medical, social and ethical factors. The interplay of these factors, interpretation of the patient...

    Authors: I. Otte, S. Salloch, A. Reinacher-Schick and J. Vollmann
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:780
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  28. Retinoblastoma (Rb), the most common childhood intraocular malignant tumor, is reported to have cancer stem cells (CSCs) similar to other tumors. Our previous investigation in primary tumors identified the sma...

    Authors: Rohini M. Nair, Murali MS. Balla, Imran Khan, Ravi Kiran Reddy Kalathur, Paturu Kondaiah and Geeta K. Vemuganti
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:779
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  29. Pseudoprogression refers to a specific pattern of response sometimes observed in malignant melanoma patients receiving treatment with immune-checkpoint inhibitors. Although cases with pseudoprogression documen...

    Authors: Yukinori Ozaki, Junichi Shindoh, Yuji Miura, Hiromichi Nakajima, Ryosuke Oki, Miyuki Uchiyama, Jun Masuda, Keiichi Kinowaki, Chihiro Kondoh, Yuko Tanabe, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Shusuke Haruta, Masaki Ueno, Shigehisa Kitano, Takeshi Fujii, Harushi Udagawa…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:778
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  30. Cancer treatment during pregnancy is a growing problem especially now that women delay childbearing. Systemic treatment of these malignancies during pregnancy centers mainly on the anticancer drugs anthracycli...

    Authors: Marialuisa Framarino-dei-Malatesta, Paolo Sammartino and Angela Napoli
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:777
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  31. Breast cancer is the top cancer by incidence and mortality in Singaporean women. Mammography is by far its best screening tool, but current recommended age and interval may not yield the most benefit. Recent s...

    Authors: Xin Yi Wong, Kok Joon Chong, Janine A. van Til and Hwee Lin Wee
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:776
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Pediatric papillary thyroid carcinoma frequently presents with lymph node involvement and distant metastases. Sorafenib, an oral multikinase inhibitor, has been used to treat radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy-r...

    Authors: Yousuke Higuchi, Takayuki Motoki, Hisashi Ishida, Kiichiro Kanamitsu, Kana Washio, Takanori Oyama, Takuo Noda, Yasuko Tsurumaru, Ayumi Okada, Hirokazu Tsukahara and Akira Shimada
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:775
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  33. Brain metastases (BM) from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are the most frequent intracranial tumors. To identify patients who might benefit from intracranial surgery, we compared the six existing prognosti...

    Authors: Xiaoyu Ji, Yingjie Zhuang, Xiangye Yin, Qiong Zhan, Xinli Zhou and Xiaohua Liang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:774
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. This study evaluated the cost-effectiveness of replacing standard intravenous therapy (taxane) with oral S-1 therapy for first-line metastatic breast cancer treatment.

    Authors: Takeru Shiroiwa, Takashi Fukuda, Kojiro Shimozuma, Mitsuko Mouri, Yasuhiro Hagiwara, Takuya Kawahara, Shozo Ohsumi, Yasuo Hozumi, Yoshiaki Sagara, Yasuo Ohashi and Hirofumi Mukai
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:773
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  35. The quality of decision-making in multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) depends on the quality of information presented and the quality of team processes. Few studies have examined these factors using a stan...

    Authors: Pola Hahlweg, Sarah Didi, Levente Kriston, Martin Härter, Yvonne Nestoriuc and Isabelle Scholl
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:772
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) plus hyperthermic intra-operative peritoneal chemotherapy (HIPC) for gastric peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) is controversial, and selection criteria for thi...

    Authors: Baki Topal, Karel Demey, Halit Topal, Joris Jaekers, Eric Van Cutsem, Vincent Vandecaveye, Xavier Sagaert and Hans Prenen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:771
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  37. Pemetrexed, a multitargeted antifolate cytotoxic agent, is currently used primarily in combination with cisplatin for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer and for malignant mesothelioma. Acute renal toxicity ...

    Authors: Maureen Assayag, Philippe Rouvier, Marion Gauthier, Ghania Costel, Philippe Cluzel, Lucile Mercadal, Gilbert Deray and Corinne Isnard Bagnis
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:770
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  38. The worldwide incidence of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) has increased remarkably, with the hindgut being the second most common site for such tumors. However, the mechanisms underlying progression and metastas...

    Authors: Yoichiro Okubo, Rika Kasajima, Masaki Suzuki, Yohei Miyagi, Osamu Motohashi, Manabu Shiozawa, Emi Yoshioka, Kota Washimi, Kae Kawachi, Yoichi Kameda and Tomoyuki Yokose
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:769
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. The routine use of adjuvant whole brain radiotherapy (AWBRT) after surgery or stereotactic radiosurgery is now discouraged by a number of international expert panels. Three decades of randomised studies have s...

    Authors: Mark B. Pinkham, Arjun Sahgal, Andrew P. Pullar and Matthew C. Foote
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:768
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  40. Haematuria is a common finding in general practice which requires visual inspection of the bladder by cystoscopy as well as upper tract imaging. In addition, patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (N...

    Authors: Wei Shen Tan, Andrew Feber, Liqin Dong, Rachael Sarpong, Sheida Rezaee, Simon Rodney, Pramit Khetrapal, Patricia de Winter, Frelyn Ocampo, Rumana Jalil, Norman R. Williams, Chris Brew-Graves and John D. Kelly
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:767
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  41. Expression of caveolin-1 (Cav-1) is frequently altered in many human cancers and both tumor suppression and promotion functions of Cav-1 have been suggested based on its expression status. However, it remains ...

    Authors: Byung-Kyu Ryu, Min-Goo Lee, Nam-Hoon Kim, Kil Yeon Lee, Shin-Ju Oh, Jung-Rock Moon, Hyo Jong Kim and Sung-Gil Chi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:766
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. The aim of the study was to evaluate the current rate of molecular testing prescription (KRAS codons 12/13, BRAF and microsatellite instability (MSI)) in newly diagnosed colorectal cancer (CRC) patients and to de...

    Authors: Quentin Thiebault, Gautier Defossez, Lucie Karayan-Tapon, Pierre Ingrand, Christine Silvain and David Tougeron
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:765
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Preoperative T staging of lower rectal cancer is an important criterion for selecting intersphincteric resection (ISR) or abdominoperineal resection (APR) as well as selecting neoadjuvant therapy. The aim of t...

    Authors: Dai Shida, Gen Iinuma, Akira Komono, Hiroki Ochiai, Shunsuke Tsukamoto, Mototaka Miyake and Yukihide Kanemitsu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:764
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Beneficial effects of aspirin and non-aspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) against recurrent colorectal adenomas have been documented in systematic reviews; however, the results have not been ...

    Authors: Sajesh K. Veettil, Kean Ghee Lim, Siew Mooi Ching, Surasak Saokaew, Pochamana Phisalprapa and Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:763
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Whether perioperative blood transfusions (PBTs) adversely influence oncological outcomes for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) patients after curative resection remains undetermined.

    Authors: Pei-Yun Zhou, Zheng Tang, Wei-Ren Liu, Meng-Xin Tian, Lei Jin, Xi-Fei Jiang, Han Wang, Chen-Yang Tao, Zhen-Bin Ding, Yuan-Fei Peng, Shuang-Jian Qiu, Zhi Dai, Jian Zhou, Jia Fan and Ying-Hong Shi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:762
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Data on the safety and feasibility of laparoscopic versus open resection for gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) larger than 5 cm are limited. Therefore, the aim of this meta-analysis was to compar...

    Authors: Xiao Lian, Fan Feng, Man Guo, Lei Cai, Zhen Liu, Shushang Liu, Shuao Xiao, Gaozan Zheng, Guanghui Xu and Hongwei Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:760
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. The association of genes XRCC1, TP53 and MDM2 with breast cancer (BC) has never been tested in Kyrgyz population. We, therefore, aimed to identify an association of alleles and genotypes of polymorphic markers Ar...

    Authors: Jainagul Isakova, Elnura Talaibekova, Nazira Aldasheva, Denis Vinnikov and Almaz Aldashev
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:758
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Endometrial cancer is the fourth most common cancer in European women. The major risk factors for endometrial cancer are related to the exposure of endometrium to estrogens not opposed to progestogens, that ca...

    Authors: Fulvio Ricceri, Maria Teresa Giraudo, Francesca Fasanelli, Dario Milanese, Veronica Sciannameo, Laura Fiorini and Carlotta Sacerdote
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:757
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  49. The spontaneous immortalization of primary malignant cells is frequently assigned to their genetic instability during in vitro culturing. In this study, the new epithelial ovarian cancer cell line CAISMOV24 wa...

    Authors: Rodrigo Fernandes da Silva, Daniela Maira Cardozo, Gisele Olinto Libanio Rodrigues, Caroline Natânia de Souza-Araújo, Natacha Azussa Migita, Liliana Aparecida Lucci de Angelo Andrade, Sophie Derchain, José Andrés Yunes and Fernando Guimarães
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:756
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  50. To better predict the likelihood of response to chemotherapy, we have conducted a study comparing the gene expression patterns of primary tumours with their corresponding response to systemic chemotherapy in t...

    Authors: Cemile Dilara Savci-Heijink, Hans Halfwerk, Jan Koster and Marc Joan Van de Vijver
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:755
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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