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  1. Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is the second most common type of primary liver cancer. Only few studies have focused on palliative radiotherapy used for patients who weren't suitable for resection by su...

    Authors: Yi-Xing Chen, Zhao-Chong Zeng, Zhao-You Tang, Jia Fan, Jian Zhou, Wei Jiang, Meng-Su Zeng and Yun-Shan Tan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:492
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  2. An increase in cancer cell invasion and microvascular density is associated with a poorer prognosis for patients with endometrial cancer. In endometrial adenocarcinoma F-prostanoid (FP) receptor expression is ...

    Authors: Margaret C Keightley, Kurt J Sales and Henry N Jabbour
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:488
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  3. Cytochrome P450-based suicide gene therapy for cancer using prodrugs such as cyclophosphamide (CPA) increases anti-tumor activity, both directly and via a bystander killing mechanism. Bystander cell killing is es...

    Authors: Joshua C Doloff, Ting Su and David J Waxman
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:487
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  4. Delivery of small interfering RNA (siRNA) to tumours remains a major obstacle for the development of RNA interference (RNAi)-based therapeutics. Following the promising pre-clinical and clinical results with t...

    Authors: Anna-Maria Anesti, Guy R Simpson, Toby Price, Hardev S Pandha and Robert S Coffin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:486
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  5. Increased mammographic breast density is a moderate risk factor for breast cancer. Different scales have been proposed for classifying mammographic density. This study sought to assess intra-rater agreement fo...

    Authors: Macarena Garrido-Estepa, Francisco Ruiz-Perales, Josefa Miranda, Nieves Ascunce, Isabel González-Román, Carmen Sánchez-Contador, Carmen Santamariña, Pilar Moreo, Carmen Vidal, Mercé Peris, María P Moreno, Jose A Váquez-Carrete, Francisca Collado-García, Francisco Casanova, María Ederra, Dolores Salas…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:485
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  6. Transcription factors and nuclear receptors constitute a link between exposure to heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from meat and tobacco smoke and colorectal cancer (CRC) risk. The aim ...

    Authors: Vibeke Andersen, Jane Christensen, Kim Overvad, Anne Tjønneland and Ulla Vogel
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:484
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  7. Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease associated with different patient prognosis and responses to therapy. Vitamin D has been emerging as a potential treatment for cancer, as it has been demonstrated that ...

    Authors: Nair Lopes, Bárbara Sousa, Diana Martins, Madalena Gomes, Daniella Vieira, Luiz A Veronese, Fernanda Milanezi, Joana Paredes, José L Costa and Fernando Schmitt
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:483
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  8. Ciz1 promotes initiation of mammalian DNA replication and is present within nuclear matrix associated DNA replication factories. Depletion of Ciz1 from normal and cancer cells restrains entry to S phase and in...

    Authors: Faisal A Rahman, Naveed Aziz and Dawn Coverley
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:482
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  9. 17-Allylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin (17-AAG), a benzoquinone ansamycin antibiotic, specifically targets heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) and interferes with its function as a molecular chaperone that maintains...

    Authors: Panagiotis K Karkoulis, Dimitrios J Stravopodis, Lukas H Margaritis and Gerassimos E Voutsinas
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:481
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  10. In the era of cytokines, patients with brain metastases (BM) from renal cell carcinoma had a significantly shorter survival than patients without. Targeted agents (TA) have improved the outcome of patients wit...

    Authors: Ursula M Vogl, Marija Bojic, Wolfgang Lamm, Josa M Frischer, Oskar Pichelmayer, Gero Kramer, Andrea Haitel, Klaus Kitz, Kaan Harmankaya, Christoph C Zielinski and Manuela Schmidinger
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:480
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  12. Treatment standard for patients with primary glioblastoma (GBM) is combined radiochemotherapy with temozolomide (TMZ). Radiation is delivered up to a total dose of 60 Gy using photons. Using this treatment reg...

    Authors: Stephanie E Combs, Meinhard Kieser, Stefan Rieken, Daniel Habermehl, Oliver Jäkel, Thomas Haberer, Anna Nikoghosyan, Renate Haselmann, Andreas Unterberg, Wolfgang Wick and Jürgen Debus
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:478
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  13. The cytokine-induced anti-apoptotic molecule (CIAPIN1) had been found to be a differentially-expressed gene involved in a variety of cancers, and it was also considered as a candidate tumour suppressor gene in...

    Authors: Hai Shi, Yi Zhou, Heliang Liu, Changsheng Chen, Shujun Li, Nanlin Li, Xiaohua Li, Xi Zhang, Hongwei Zhang, Weizhong Wang and Qingchuan Zhao
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:477
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  14. Attempts to reduce morbidity and mortality in breast cancer is based on efforts to identify novel biomarkers to support prognosis and therapeutic choices. The present study has focussed on S100 proteins as a p...

    Authors: Patrizia Cancemi, Gianluca Di Cara, Nadia Ninfa Albanese, Francesca Costantini, Maria Rita Marabeti, Rosa Musso, Carmelo Lupo, Elena Roz and Ida Pucci-Minafra
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:476
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  15. We evaluated the long-term effect of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for primary small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) ineligible for local therapy or surgery.

    Authors: Jung Hyun Kwon, Si Hyun Bae, Ji Yoon Kim, Byung Ock Choi, Hong Seok Jang, Jeong Won Jang, Jong Young Choi, Seung Kew Yoon and Kyu Won Chung
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:475
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  16. Whether tumor size and stage distribution are correlated remains controversial. The objective is to assess the relationship between tumor size and disease stage distribution in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

    Authors: Fu Yang, Haiquan Chen, Jiaqing Xiang, Yawei Zhang, Jianhua Zhou, Hong Hu, Jie Zhang and Xiaoyang Luo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:474
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  17. Human neuroblastoma (NB) cell lines may present with either one of the so-called S-and N-subtypes. We have previously reported a strong correlation between protein expression levels of vimentin, an S-subtype m...

    Authors: Xénia Mergui, Marie-Line Puiffe, Dominique Valteau-Couanet, Marc Lipinski, Jean Bénard and Mounira Amor-Guéret
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:473
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  19. Chondrosarcomas are malignant cartilage tumors that do not respond to traditional chemotherapy or radiation. The 5-year survival rate of histologic grade III chondrosarcoma is less than 30%. An animal model of...

    Authors: Christopher A Hamm, Jeff W Stevens, Hehuang Xie, Elio F Vanin, Jose A Morcuende, Hakeem Abdulkawy, Elisabeth A Seftor, Simone T Sredni, Jared M Bischof, Deli Wang, Sergey Malchenko, Maria de Fatima Bonaldo, Thomas L Casavant, Mary JC Hendrix and Marcelo B Soares
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:471
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  20. Severe toxicity to 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) based chemotherapy in gastrointestinal cancer has been associated with constitutional genetic alterations of the dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase gene (DPYD).

    Authors: Joana Savva-Bordalo, João Ramalho-Carvalho, Manuela Pinheiro, Vera L Costa, Ângelo Rodrigues, Paula C Dias, Isabel Veiga, Manuela Machado, Manuel R Teixeira, Rui Henrique and Carmen Jerónimo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:470
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  21. Mitomycin C is a chemotherapeutic agent used in the treatment of peritoneal surface malignancies, administered as hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy after cytoreductive surgery. Pharmacokinetic studies ...

    Authors: Olaf Sørensen, Anders Andersen, Harald Olsen, Kristian Alexandr, Per Olaf Ekstrøm, Karl-Erik Giercksky and Kjersti Flatmark
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:469
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  22. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is refractory to conventional therapies. To overcome the problem of heterogeneity, more brain tumor markers are required for prognosis and targeted therapy. We have identified and...

    Authors: Chien-Tsun Kuan, Kenji Wakiya, James E Herndon II, Eric S Lipp, Charles N Pegram, Gregory J Riggins, Ahmed Rasheed, Scott E Szafranski, Roger E McLendon, Carol J Wikstrand and Darell D Bigner
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:468
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  23. Overexpression of Bmi-1 has been observed in a variety of cancers, and it has been suggested to be an independent prognostic marker for the patients. The objective of this study was to determine the level of B...

    Authors: Wan-li Liu, Xian-zhi Guo, Lan-jun Zhang, Jun-ye Wang, Ge Zhang, Su Guan, Yu-min Chen, Qing-li Kong, Li-hua Xu, Man-zhi Li, Li-bing Song and Mu-sheng Zeng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:467
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  24. BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations are found in a proportion of families with multiple early-onset breast cancers. There are a large number of different deleterious mutations in both genes, none of which would be detecta...

    Authors: Lidija Turkovic, Lyle C Gurrin, Melanie Bahlo, Gillian S Dite, Melissa C Southey and John L Hopper
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:466
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  25. Lymphadenectomy is debated in early stages endometrial cancer. Moreover, a new FIGO classification of endometrial cancer, merging stages IA and IB has been recently published. Therefore, the aims of the presen...

    Authors: Marcos Ballester, Martin Koskas, Charles Coutant, Elisabeth Chéreau, Jeremy Seror, Roman Rouzier and Emile Daraï
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:465
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  26. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) are a heterogeneous population of immature cells that accumulates in tumour-bearing hosts. These cells are induced by tumour-derived factors (e.g. prostaglandins) and ha...

    Authors: Joris D Veltman, Margaretha EH Lambers, Menno van Nimwegen, Rudi W Hendriks, Henk C Hoogsteden, Joachim GJV Aerts and Joost PJJ Hegmans
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:464
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  27. A rural region in south-west Spain has one of the highest lung cancer incidence rates of the country, as revealed by a previous epidemiological 10-year follow-up study. The present work was undertaken to ascer...

    Authors: Carmen San Jose, Agustin Cabanillas, Julio Benitez, Juan Antonio Carrillo, Mercedes Jimenez and Guillermo Gervasini
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:463
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  28. Giant cell tumour of bone (GCTB) is an expansile osteolytic tumour which contains numerous osteoclast-like giant cells. GCTB frequently recurs and can produce metastatic lesions in the lungs. Bisphosphonates a...

    Authors: Maurice Balke, Laura Campanacci, Carsten Gebert, Piero Picci, Max Gibbons, Richard Taylor, Pancras Hogendoorn, Judith Kroep, John Wass and Nicholas Athanasou
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:462
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  30. A major challenge in the interpretation of genomic profiling data generated from breast cancer samples is the identification of driver genes as distinct from bystander genes which do not impact tumorigenesis. ...

    Authors: Lesleyann Hawthorn, Jesse Luce, Leighton Stein and Jenniffer Rothschild
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:460
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  31. Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) contribute to tumor angiogenesis and growth. We aimed to determine whether inhibitors of differentiation 1 (Id1) were expressed in circulating EPCs of patients with ovarian ...

    Authors: Yajuan Su, Lei Zheng, Qian Wang, Jie Bao, Zhen Cai and Ailan Liu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:459
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  32. Prognostic factors in patients who are diagnosed with T4 breast carcinomas are widely awaited. We here evaluated the clinical role of some molecular alterations involved in tumorigenesis in a well-characterize...

    Authors: Bruno Massidda, MariaCristina Sini, Mario Budroni, Francesco Atzori, MariaCristina Deidda, Valeria Pusceddu, MariaTeresa Perra, Paola Sirigu, Antonio Cossu, Grazia Palomba, MariaTeresa Ionta and Giuseppe Palmieri
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:458
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  33. Thymostimulin is a thymic peptide fraction with immune-mediated cytotoxicity against hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in vitro and palliative efficacy in advanced HCC in two independent phase II trials. The aim of ...

    Authors: Matthias M Dollinger, Christine Lautenschlaeger, Joachim Lesske, Andrea Tannapfel, Anna-Dorothea Wagner, Konrad Schoppmeyer, Oliver Nehls, Martin-Walter Welker, Reiner Wiest and Wolfgang E Fleig
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:457
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  34. Recent studies identified an increased risk of prostate cancer (PCa) in Caucasian men harboring polymorphisms of genes involved in innate immunity and inflammation. This study was designed to assess whether si...

    Authors: Jie Liu, Bao Song, Xueli Bai, Wenjian Liu, Zengjun Li, Jialin Wang, Yan Zheng and Zhehai Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:456
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  35. Genomic gains and losses are a result of genomic instability in many types of cancers. BRCA1- and BRCA2-mutated breast cancers are associated with increased amounts of chromosomal aberrations, presumably due thei...

    Authors: Henne Holstege, Erik van Beers, Arno Velds, Xiaoling Liu, Simon A Joosse, Sjoerd Klarenbeek, Eva Schut, Ron Kerkhoven, Christiaan N Klijn, Lodewyk FA Wessels, Petra M Nederlof and Jos Jonkers
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:455
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  36. Gliomas are the most common type of primary brain tumours, and in this group glioblastomas (GBMs) are the higher-grade gliomas with fast progression and unfortunate prognosis. Two major aspects of glioma biolo...

    Authors: Juan L Garcia, Maria Perez-Caro, Juan A Gomez-Moreta, Francisco Gonzalez, Javier Ortiz, Oscar Blanco, Magdalena Sancho, Jesus M Hernandez-Rivas, Rogelio Gonzalez-Sarmiento and Manuel Sanchez-Martin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:454
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  37. Fatigue is prevalent in breast cancer survivors and has profound effects on daily life. The interference of fatigue with endocrine therapy may be difficult to separate. This study investigates the prevalence a...

    Authors: Xu Huang, Qingyuan Zhang, Xinmei Kang, Ying Song and Wenhui Zhao
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:453
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  38. Patterns of diagnosis and management for men diagnosed with prostate cancer in Queensland, Australia, have not yet been systematically documented and so assumptions of equity are untested. This longitudinal st...

    Authors: Peter D Baade, Joanne F Aitken, Megan Ferguson, Robert A Gardiner and Suzanne K Chambers
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:452
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  39. Platinum-based drugs, such as cisplatin and oxaliplatin, are well-known for inducing chronic sensory neuropathies but their acute and motor neurotoxicities are less well characterised. Use was made of nerve co...

    Authors: Andrew Hill, Peter Bergin, Fritha Hanning, Paul Thompson, Michael Findlay, Dragan Damianovich and Mark J McKeage
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:451
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  40. Desmoplasia in medulloblastoma is often diagnosed in adult patients and was repeatedly associated with improved results. Today, all medulloblastoma patients receive intensive multimodal treatment including sur...

    Authors: Stefan Rieken, Timo Gaiser, Angela Mohr, Thomas Welzel, Olaf Witt, Andreas E Kulozik, Wolfgang Wick, Jürgen Debus and Stephanie E Combs
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:450
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  41. Transformed phenotypes are common to cell lines derived from various cancers. Proteome profiling is a valuable tool that may reveal uncharacteristic cell phenotypes in transformed cells. Changes in expression ...

    Authors: Jana Mladkova, Miloslav Sanda, Eva Matouskova and Irena Selicharova
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:449
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  42. Studies about the biology, treatment pattern, and treatment outcome of metastatic/recurrent neuroendocrine tumor (NET) have been few.

    Authors: Su-Jung Kim, Jin Won Kim, Sae-Won Han, Do-Youn Oh, Se-Hoon Lee, Dong-Wan Kim, Seock-Ah Im, Tae-You Kim, Dae Seog Heo and Yung-Jue Bang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:448
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  43. Breast cancer is the most common form of malignancy affecting women worldwide. It is also the leading cancer in females in Cyprus, with approximately 400 new cases diagnosed annually. It is well recognized tha...

    Authors: Andreas Hadjisavvas, Maria A Loizidou, Nicos Middleton, Thalia Michael, Rena Papachristoforou, Eleni Kakouri, Maria Daniel, Panayiotis Papadopoulos, Simon Malas, Yiola Marcou and Kyriacos Kyriacou
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:447
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  44. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is rare in most parts of the world but is a common malignancy in southern China, especially in Guangdong. Dietary habit is regarded as an important modifier of NPC risk in severa...

    Authors: Wei-Hua Jia, Xiang-Yu Luo, Bing-Jian Feng, Hong-Lian Ruan, Jin-Xin Bei, Wen-Sheng Liu, Hai-De Qin, Qi-Sheng Feng, Li-Zhen Chen, Shugart Yin Yao and Yi-Xin Zeng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:446
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  45. Resveratrol (RES), a natural phytoalexin found at high levels in grapes and red wine, has been shown to induce anti-proliferation and apoptosis of human cancer cell lines. However, the underlying molecular mec...

    Authors: Ying Yan, Yan-Yan Gao, Bao-Qin Liu, Xiao-Fang Niu, Ying Zhuang and Hua-Qin Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:445
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  46. Tumour phenotype is regulated in a complex fashion as a result of interactions between malignant cells and the tumour stroma. Fibroblasts are the most abundant and perhaps most active part of the tumour stroma...

    Authors: Charlotta J Olsen, José Moreira, Eugene M Lukanidin and Noona S Ambartsumian
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:444
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  47. In addition to regulating platelet function, the G protein-coupled sub-family member Proteinase-activated receptor-1 (PAR1) has a proposed role in the development of various cancers, but its exact role and mec...

    Authors: Daisuke Fujimoto, Yasuo Hirono, Takanori Goi, Kanji Katayama, Shigeru Matsukawa and Akio Yamaguchi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:443
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  48. Numerous epidemiological studies have documented that obesity is associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The aim of this study was to investigate the biological actions regulated by leptin, the obesity...

    Authors: Nikolaos Stefanou, Vassilis Papanikolaou, Yoichi Furukawa, Yusuke Nakamura and Aspasia Tsezou
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:442
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  49. Based on their different mechanisms of action, non-overlapping side effects and radiosensitising potential, combining the antimetabolites pemetrexed (multitargeted antifolate, MTA) and gemcitabine (2',2'-diflu...

    Authors: An Wouters, Bea Pauwels, Filip Lardon, Greet GO Pattyn, Hilde AJ Lambrechts, Marc Baay, Paul Meijnders and Jan B Vermorken
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:441
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  50. Pancreatic cancer is a complex genetic disorder that is characterized by rapid progression, invasiveness, resistance to treatment and high molecular heterogeneity. Various agents have been used in clinical tri...

    Authors: Jan N Kreutzer, Maria Ruzzene and Barbara Guerra
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:440
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