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  1. One of the main side effects of radiation therapy to the head and neck region is altered taste sensation. This causes significant morbidity and has profound effects on the quality of life (QoL) of patients. Wh...

    Authors: Anja Dietze, Peter J. Neyer, Marlene M. Speth, Philipp Metzler, Olgun Elicin, Panagiotis Balermpas, Daniel M. Aebersold, Oliver Riesterer and Sonja Stieb
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:865
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  2. Because the proportion of elderly individuals and the incidence of cancer worldwide are continually increasing, medical costs for elderly inpatients with cancer are being significantly increasing, which puts t...

    Authors: Lilin Zhang, Xijing Zhuang, Xiumei Yang, Feng Xu, Nan Wang, Zhanfang Guo, Junfeng Chen and Ding Ding
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:864
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  3. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a significant malignancy with widespread implications. Despite progress in surgical interventions for rectal cancer, improvements in overall prognosis remain disproportionate. Standa...

    Authors: Mandana Biniaz, Arash Moradi, Manouchehr Ghorbanpour Basit, Abdol-Azim Seddighi Pashaki, Arash Dehghan and Kamal Mohammadian
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:863
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  4. The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) 2023 staging system for endometrial cancer (EC) was released with incorporating histology, lympho-vascular space invasion, and molecular classif...

    Authors: Changmin Yu, Xinhui Yuan, Qianlan Yao, Yuyin Xu, Xiaoyan Zhou, Xin Hu, Huijuan Yang, Huaying Wang, Xiaoli Zhu and Yulan Ren
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:862
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  5. Many long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) with altered expression significantly influence colorectal cancer (CRC) progression and behavior. The functions of many lncRNAs in CRC are not clear yet. This study aimed to ...

    Authors: Xinzhi Miao, Fang Wang, Muhammad Amir Yunus, Ida Shazrina Ismail and Tianyun Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:857
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  6. Metformin, a widely prescribed antidiabetic drug, has shown several promising effects for cancer treatment. These effects have been shown to be mediated by dual modulation of the AMPK-mTORC1 axis, where AMPK a...

    Authors: Karen Griselda De la Cruz-López, Eduardo Alvarado-Ortiz, Heriberto A. Valencia-González, Fredy Omar Beltrán-Anaya, José María Zamora-Fuentes, Alfredo Hidalgo-Miranda, Elizabeth Ortiz-Sánchez, Jesús Espinal-Enríquez and Alejandro García-Carrancá
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:853
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  7. Providing appropriate specialized treatment to the right patient at the right time is considered necessary in cancer management. Targeted therapy tailored to the genetic changes of each breast cancer patient i...

    Authors: Solmaz Sohrabei, Hamid Moghaddasi, Azamossadat Hosseini and Seyed Jafar Ehsanzadeh
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:852
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  8. This study was designed to evaluate the effect of progesterone receptor (PR) status on the prognosis of advanced estrogen receptor (ER)-high human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative breast canc...

    Authors: Lin Jia, Junning Peng, Nan Sun, Hongying Chen, Zhenyu Liu, Wenhui Zhao, Qingyuan Zhang and Liru Li
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:850
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  9. Numerous meta-analyses and clinical studies have shown that subtypes of immune cells are associated with the development of skin cancer, but it is not clear whether this association is causal or biased. Mendel...

    Authors: Wei Yin, Ruilei Li, Zhaoqi Zhang, Ying Wang, Xinghua Tang, Lin Zhu, Hong Yao and Ke Li
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:849
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  10. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play vital regulatory functions in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Cisplatin (DDP) resistance has significantly decreased the effectiveness of DDP-based chemotherapy in NSCLC ...

    Authors: Yunfeng Chen, Siyan Wu, Yu Han, Hai Shi, Jieqing Yuan and Wenjie Cui
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:848
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  11. Significant concomitants of the sick role maladaptation in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients include inappropriate cognitions, emotional states, and overt conducts associated to disease. This protocol was devel...

    Authors: Xinxin Li, Xiaodan Wu, Chao Chen, Huaxiang Chao, Jingyue Xie, Qianqian Du and Meifen Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:847
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  12. Despite evidence showing a connection between inflammation and endometrial cancer (EC) risk, the surveys on genetic correlation and cohort studies investigating the impact on long-term outcomes have yet to be ...

    Authors: Jing Wang, Zhichao Chen, Yaozhen Lai, Zebiao Ma, Luanhong Wang, Pier Luigi Fiori, Ciriaco Carru, Giampiero Capobianco and Li Zhou
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:846
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  13. Early detection of cancer is a highly effective way to decrease cancer-related deaths. The purpose of this study was to determine the disparity in cognitive factors related to cancer screening uptake based on ...

    Authors: Mehdi Mirzaei-Alavijeh, Mahin Amini, Mehdi Moradinazar, Mehdi Eivazi and Farzad Jalilian
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:845
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  15. Cancer is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Among all cancer types, breast cancer stands out as the most common and is characterized by distinct molecular characteristics. This di...

    Authors: Zemene Damtie, Niguss Cherie and Melaku Mekonnen Agidew
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:843
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  16. Targeted therapy is now the standard of care in driver–oncogene-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Its initial clinical effects are remarkable. However, almost all patients experience treatment resis...

    Authors: Teppei Yamaguchi, Junichi Shimizu, Reiko Matsuzawa, Naohiro Watanabe, Yoshitsugu Horio and Yutaka Fujiwara
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:842
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  17. Standard oral cancer chemotherapy (OCT) or targeted therapy (OTT) has expanded the treatment methods for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, its principal nonadherence causes a reduction in efficacy. We a...

    Authors: Thai Doan Ky, Nguyen Thi Loan, Nguyen Tien Thinh and Mai Thanh Binh
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:841
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  18. Detection of cancer and identification of tumor origin at an early stage improve the survival and prognosis of patients. Herein, we proposed a plasma cfDNA-based approach called TOTEM to detect and trace the c...

    Authors: Dalin Xiong, Tiancheng Han, Yulong Li, Yuanyuan Hong, Suxing Li, Xi Li, Wenhui Tao, Yu S. Huang, Weizhi Chen and Chunguang Li
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:840
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  19. A few studies regarding the epidemiology and risk factors of Non-muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (NMIBC) are reported from Sub-Saharan African countries (SSA), including Somalia, and the African literature is s...

    Authors: Abdikarim Hussein Mohamed, Khaled Ali Mohamed, Ertan Kayacan, Yassin Nur and Mohamed Abdikarim Nur-amin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:839
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  20. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guideline recommends consideration of weekly cisplatin as an alternative option for patients with head and neck cancer undergoing definitive chemoradiation. How...

    Authors: Jas Virk, Jasmin Gill, Fatemeh Fekrmandi, Austin Iovoli, Mark Farrugia, Ayham Al-Afif, Kimberly Wooten, Vishal Gupta, Ryan McSpadden, Moni A. Kuriakose, Michael R. Markiewicz, Wesley L. Hicks Jr, Sung Jun Ma and Anurag K. Singh
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:838
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  21. This study aimed to compare the survival outcome and side effects in patients with primary high-grade glioma (HGG) who received carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT) alone or as a boost strategy after photon radiatio...

    Authors: XiaoJun Li, YanShan Zhang, YanCheng Ye, SuQing Tian, TingChao Hu, HongYu Chai, TianE Zhang and Faxin Wen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:837
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  22. The clinical features of cerebellar high-grade gliomas (cHGGs) in adults have not been thoroughly explored. This large-scale, population-based study aimed to comprehensively outline these traits and construct ...

    Authors: Tao Chang, Rui Zhang, Jiahao Gan, Yuan Yang, Yanhui Liu, Yan Ju, Xiaodong Niu and Qing Mao
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:836
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  23. Extracellular heat shock protein 90 AA1(eHSP90α) is intricately linked to tumor progression and prognosis. This study aimed to investigate the difference in the value of eHSP90α in post-treatment response asse...

    Authors: Yingzhen Bian, Haizhou Liu, Jinglei Huang, Zhaorong Feng, Yanyan Lin, Jilin Li and Litu Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:835
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  24. In this study, we aimed to identify the risk factors in patients with rectal anastomotic re-leakage and develop a prediction model to predict the probability of rectal anastomotic re-leakage after stoma closure.

    Authors: Yuegang Li, Gang Hu, Jinzhu Zhang, Wenlong Qiu, Shiwen Mei, Xishan Wang and Jianqiang Tang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:834
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  25. This study aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of pegylated recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (PEG-rhG-CSF) for primary prophylaxis of neutropenia in patients with cervical cance...

    Authors: Jing You, Yidi Yuan, Xiaoxuan Gu, Weihu Wang and Xiaofan Li
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:833
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  26. Radiotherapy in patients with head and neck cancer fairly leads to xerostomia, profoundly affecting their quality of life. With limited effective preventive and therapeutic methods, attention has turned to exp...

    Authors: Mohammad Farhadi, Pedram Fadavi, Saleh Mohebbi and Farzad Taghizadeh-Hesary
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:832
    Content type: Comment Published on:

  27. Listening to patient voices is critical, in terms of how people experience their condition as well as their treatment preferences. This research explored the patient journey, therapy attributes and goals among...

    Authors: Simon Fifer, Jenni Godsell, Stephen Opat, Nada Hamad, Masa Lasica, Cecily Forsyth, Louisa Morand, Erica Smeaton, Sharon Winton, Andrea Puig and Marija McGeachie
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:831
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  28. Numerous epidemiological investigations have explored the impact of body composition on the effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in urological malignancies (UM) patients, yielding conflicting f...

    Authors: Wangbin Ma, Qiao Shi, Lilong Zhang, Zhendong Qiu, Tianrui Kuang, Kailiang Zhao and Weixing Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:830
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2024 24:844

  30. Most gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) harbor c-KIT or PDGFRA mutations. Administration of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) has significantly improved the survival of patients with GISTs. We aimed to evalu...

    Authors: Hui-Jen Tsai, Yan-Shen Shan, Ching-Yao Yang, Chin-Fu Hsiao, Chung-Hsin Tsai, Chuan-Cheng Wang, Ming-Tsan Lin, Chun-Fu Ting, De-Chuan Chan, Te-Hung Chen, Chueh-Chuan Yen, Yen-Yang Chen, Hsuan-Yu Lin, Ta-Sen Yeh, Ching-Liang Ho, Tze-Yu Shieh…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:828
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  32. Hospitalisation  resulting from complications of systemic therapy and radiotherapy places a substantial burden on the patient, society, and healthcare system. To formulate preventive strategies and enhance pat...

    Authors: Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Md. Shahjalal, Padam Kanta Dahal, Md. Parvez Mosharaf, Mohammad Enamul Hoque and Olivia Wawryk
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:826
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

  33. Immune response is known to play an important role in local tumor control especially in renal cell carcinoma (RCC), which is considered highly immunogenic. For localized tumors, operative resection or local ab...

    Authors: Johanna Waidhauser, Anna-Katharina Gantner, Paola Schifano, Katharina Rippel, Stefan Schiele, Tim Tobias Arndt, Gernot Müller, Julie Steinestel, Andreas Rank and Thomas Kröncke
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:825
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  34. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is ranked as the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the third cause of cancer related deaths. CRC is greatly attributed to genetic and epigenetic mutations and immune dysregulatio...

    Authors: Marwa Matboli, Nourhan Hossam, Doaa Farag, Mohamed Hassan, Hanan Shehata, Marwa Aboelhussein, Nahed Ismail and Sanaa Eissa
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:824
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  35. Approximately 40% of treated head and neck cancer (HNC) patients develop recurrence. The risk of recurrence declines with time from treatment. Current guidelines recommend clinical follow-up every two months f...

    Authors: Paul Nankivell, Piers Gaunt, Claire Gaunt, Julia Sissons, Evaggelia Liaskou, Yolande Jefferson, Tessa Fulton-Lieuw, Saloni Mittal and Hisham Mehanna
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:823
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2024 24:861

  36. The PAROLE-Onco program was introduced in the province of Quebec, Canada in 2019. It integrates accompanying patients (APs), i.e., people who have been affected by cancer, into the clinical team as full member...

    Authors: Marie-Pascale Pomey, Monica Iliescu Nelea, Cécile Vialaron, Louise Normandin, Marie-Andrée Côté, Mado Desforges, Pénélope Pomey-Carpentier, Nesrine Adjtoutah, Israël Fortin, Isabelle Ganache, Catherine Régis, Zeev Rosberger, Danielle Charpentier, Lynda Bélanger, Michel Dorval, Djahanchah P. Ghadiri…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:822
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  37. The incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) has been increasing in Sub-Saharan countries, including Ethiopia. However, the real mortality rate for CRC patients in Ethiopia has not been established. Therefore, thi...

    Authors: Zewdu Bishaw Aynalem, Abebaw Bires Adal, Temesgien Fentahun Ayele, Gashaw Melkie Bayeh, Almaw Genet Yeshiwas, Tadesse Miretie Dessie and Tilahun Degu Tsega
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:821
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  38. Potentially modifiable risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have been investigated in observational epidemiology studies in East Asian and European populations, whereas the causal associations of mo...

    Authors: Xiaoxia Wei, Chenglei Yang, Qiuling Lin, Moqin Qiu, Qiuping Wen, Zihan Zhou, Yanji Jiang, Peiqin Chen, Xiumei Liang, Ji Cao, Juan Tang, Yuying Wei, Hongping Yu and Yingchun Liu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:820
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  39. Authors: R. Vera, N. Castro, I. Labiano, A. Lecumberri, A. E. Huerta, H. Arasanz, I. Caseda, F. Ruiz-Pace, C. Viaplana, V. Arrazubi, I. Hernandez-Garcia, E. Mata, D. Gomez, S. Laguna, J. Suarez, I. Fernandez-De-los-Reyes…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:819
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Cancer 2024 24:668

  40. Glioma is the most common primary brain tumor with high mortality and disability rates. Recent studies have highlighted the significant prognostic consequences of subtyping molecular pathological markers using...

    Authors: Xian Xie, Chen Luo, Shuai Wu, Wanyu Qiao, Wei Deng, Lei Jin, Junfeng Lu, Linghao Bu, Hugues Duffau, Jie Zhang and Ye Yao
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:818
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  41. Inflammation plays a pivotal role in the progression of prostate cancer (PCa). Several immune-inflammatory indices, including neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), derived neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (dNLR)...

    Authors: Zhipeng Wang, Haoyang Liu, Qiyu Zhu, Junru Chen, Jinge Zhao and Hao Zeng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:817
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  42. Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is a rare but highly aggressive thyroid cancer with poor prognosis. Killing cancer cells by inducing DNA damage or blockage of DNA repair is a promising strategy for chemothe...

    Authors: Jinyan Chai, Mengxue Su, Ruiguo Zhang, Ning Li, Yuanyuan Jia, Wei Zheng, Jian Tan, Qiang Jia, Huabing Sun and Zhaowei Meng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:816
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  43. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the primary reason for cancer-related deaths globally. Tertiary lymphoid structure (TLS) is an organized collection of immune cells acquired in non-physiological, non-lymp...

    Authors: Luyuan Ma, Rongyang Li, Xiaomeng Liu, Wenhao Yu, Zhanpeng Tang, Yi Shen and Hui Tian
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:815
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

  44. Despite a multimodal approach including surgery, chemo- and radiotherapy, the 5-year event-free survival rate for rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), the most common soft tissue sarcoma in childhood, remains very poor for...

    Authors: Simona Camero, Luisa Milazzo, Francesca Vulcano, Federica Ceccarelli, Paola Pontecorvi, Francesca Pedini, Alessandra Rossetti, Elena Sofia Scialis, Giulia Gerini, Fabrizio Cece, Silvia Pomella, Matteo Cassandri, Antonella Porrazzo, Enrico Romano, Claudio Festuccia, Giovanni Luca Gravina…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:814
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  45. Therapeutic options for early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in individual patients can be limited by tumor and location, liver dysfunction and comorbidities. Many patients with early-stage HCC do not re...

    Authors: Alan Wigg, Jonathan Tibballs, Richard Woodman, Katherine Stuart, Hien Le, Stuart K. Roberts, John K. Olynyk, Simone I. Strasser, Michael Wallace, Jarad Martin, Annette Haworth, Nicholas Hardcastle, Kee Fong Loo, Colin Tang, Yoo Young Lee, Julie Chu…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:813
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  46. Cancer has become the leading diabetes-related cause of death in high-income countries, and more knowledge is needed to clarify the impact of diabetes on site-specific cancers. The purpose of this study is to ...

    Authors: Jens Ejrnæs Tønder, Marie Louise Bønnelykke-Behrndtz, Tinne Laurberg, Eeva-Liisa Røssell and Martin Sollie
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:812
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

  48. The recurrence of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is not unusual and associated with risk of death. This study is aimed to construct a nomogram that combines clinicopathological characteristics and ultrasoun...

    Authors: Binqian Zhou, Jianxin Liu, Yaqin Yang, Xuewei Ye, Yang Liu, Mingfeng Mao, Xiaofeng Sun, Xinwu Cui and Qin Zhou
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:810
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  49. Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an aggressive cancer characterized by an immunosuppressive microenvironment. Patients from specific ethnicities and population groups have poorer prognoses than other...

    Authors: Nnenna Elebo, Ebtesam A. Abdel-Shafy, Jones A. O. Omoshoro-Jones, Zanele Nsingwane, Ahmed A. A. Hussein, Martin Smith, Geoffrey Candy, Stefano Cacciatore, Pascaline Fru and Ekene Emmanuel Nweke
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:809
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  50. Telemedicine is beneficial for improving treatment efficiency and reducing medical expenses of cancer patients. This study focuses on cancer patients participating in teleconsultations through a regional telem...

    Authors: Fangfang Cui, Xu Zhang, Xianying He, Dongqing Liu, Jinming Shi, Ming Ye, Linlin Wang, Yuntian Chu and Jie Zhao
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2024 24:808
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