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  1. Carcinogenesis affects not only humans but almost all metazoan species. Understanding the rules driving the occurrence of cancers in the wild is currently expected to provide crucial insights into identifying ...

    Authors: Hugo Ducasse, Beata Ujvari, Eric Solary, Marion Vittecoq, Audrey Arnal, Florence Bernex, Nelly Pirot, Dorothée Misse, François Bonhomme, François Renaud, Frédéric Thomas and Benjamin Roche
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:792
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  2. In breast cancer, progesterone receptor (PR) positivity or abundance is positively associated with survival and treatment response. It was initially believed that PR was a useful diagnostic marker of estrogen ...

    Authors: Eleanor F. Need, Luke A. Selth, Andrew P. Trotta, Damien A. Leach, Lauren Giorgio, Melissa A. O’Loughlin, Eric Smith, Peter G. Gill, Wendy V. Ingman, J. Dinny Graham and Grant Buchanan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:791
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) promote tumor progression and have an effect on survival in human cancer. However, little is known regarding their influence on tumor progression and prognosis in human hila...

    Authors: Georgi Atanasov, Hans-Michael Hau, Corinna Dietel, Christian Benzing, Felix Krenzien, Andreas Brandl, Georg Wiltberger, Ivan Matia, Isabel Prager, Katrin Schierle, Simon C. Robson, Anja Reutzel-Selke, Johann Pratschke, Moritz Schmelzle and Sven Jonas
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:790
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. Methylation of HIN-1 is associated with poor outcomes in patients with ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC), which is regarded to be an aggressive, chemo-resistant histological subtype. This study aimed to eval...

    Authors: Chih-Ming Ho, Chi-Jung Huang, Shih-Hung Huang, Shwu-Fen Chang and Wen-Fang Cheng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:789
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Healthcare resource utilization in breast cancer varies by disease characteristics and treatment choices. However, lack of clarity in guidelines can result in varied interpretation and heterogeneous treatment ...

    Authors: Guy Jerusalem, Patrick Neven, Nina Marinsek, Jie Zhang, Ravi Degun, Giancarlo Benelli, Stephen Saletan, Jean-François Ricci and Fabrice Andre
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:787
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Although number of elderly patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) is rapidly increasing, this population is often underrepresented in clinical trials. Recently, a phase II trial demonstrated that ca...

    Authors: Yoshinori Munemoto, Mitsuro Kanda, Keiichiro Ishibashi, Taishi Hata, Michiya Kobayashi, Junichi Hasegawa, Mutsumi Fukunaga, Akinori Takagane, Toshio Otsuji, Yasuhiro Miyake, Michitaka Nagase, Junichi Sakamoto, Masaki Matsuoka, Koji Oba and Hideyuki Mishima
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:786
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Cyclin A1 is essential for male gametopoiesis. In acute myeloid leukemia, it acts as a leukemia-associated antigen. Cyclin A1 expression has been reported in several epithelial malignancies, including testicul...

    Authors: Ruza Arsenic, Elena Ilona Braicu, Anne Letsch, Manfred Dietel, Jalid Sehouli, Ulrich Keilholz and Sebastian Ochsenreither
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:784
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. The tumor microenvironment impacts pancreatic cancer (PC) development, progression and metastasis. How intratumoral inflammatory mediators modulate this biology remains poorly understood. We hypothesized that ...

    Authors: Daniel Delitto, Brian S. Black, Heather L. Sorenson, Andrea E. Knowlton, Ryan M. Thomas, George A. Sarosi, Lyle L. Moldawer, Kevin E. Behrns, Chen Liu, Thomas J. George, Jose G. Trevino, Shannon M. Wallet and Steven J. Hughes
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:783
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Cancer survivorship has emerged as an important aspect of oncology due to the possibility of physical and psychosocial complications. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of the Ambulatory M...

    Authors: Gisèle Compaci, Manuela Rueter, Sébastien Lamy, Lucie Oberic, Christian Recher, Maryse Lapeyre-Mestre, Guy Laurent and Fabien Despas
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:781
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Tumor genotype plays a crucial role in clinical management of GIST. Whether genetic polymorphism of KIT may influence GIST patient outcome is unclear.

    Authors: Mehdi Brahmi, Laurent Alberti, Armelle Dufresne, Isabelle Ray-Coquard, Philippe Cassier, Pierre Meeus, Anne-Valérie Decouvelaere, Dominique Ranchère-Vince and Jean-Yves Blay
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:780
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Selective BRAF inhibitors, vemurafenib and dabrafenib, and the MEK inhibitor, trametinib, have been approved for treatment of metastatic melanomas with a BRAF p.V600E mutation. The clinical significance of non-co...

    Authors: Gang Zheng, Li-Hui Tseng, Guoli Chen, Lisa Haley, Peter Illei, Christopher D. Gocke, James R. Eshleman and Ming-Tseh Lin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:779
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Pilocytic astrocytoma is the most common type of brain tumor in the pediatric population, with a generally favorable prognosis, although recurrences or leptomeningeal dissemination are sometimes also observed....

    Authors: Krzysztof Zakrzewski, Michał Jarząb, Aleksandra Pfeifer, Małgorzata Oczko-Wojciechowska, Barbara Jarząb, Paweł P. Liberski and Magdalena Zakrzewska
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:778
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. The nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor tyrosine-kinase TrkA is a well-known determinant of the melanocytic lineage, through modulation of the MAPK and AKT cascades. While TrkA gene is frequently rearranged in ...

    Authors: Luigi Pasini, Angela Re, Toma Tebaldi, Gianluca Ricci, Sebastiana Boi, Valentina Adami, Mattia Barbareschi and Alessandro Quattrone
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:777
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Infection by the liver fluke, Opisthorchis viverrini, remains an important public health problem in Thailand and has resulted in the highest prevalence of infection and incidence of subsequent cholangiocarcinoma ...

    Authors: Supot Kamsa-ard, Vor Luvira, Ake Pugkhem, Varisara Luvira, Bandit Thinkhamrop, Krittika Suwanrungruang and Vajarabhongsa Bhudhisawasdi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:776
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) metabolizes L-arginine to produce nitric oxide (NO) which was originally identified in myeloid cells as a host defense mechanism against pathogens. Recent studies, howeve...

    Authors: Priscilla S. Simon, Sarah K. Sharman, Chunwan Lu, Dafeng Yang, Amy V. Paschall, Sidhartha S. Tulachan and Kebin Liu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:770
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Alterations in methylation patterns, miRNA expression, and stem cell protein expression occur in germ cell tumors (GCTs). Our goal is to integrate molecular data across platforms to identify molecular signatur...

    Authors: Jenny N. Poynter, Jessica R. B. M. Bestrashniy, Kevin A. T. Silverstein, Anthony J. Hooten, Christopher Lees, Julie A. Ross and Jakub Tolar
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:769
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Triple-negative breast cancers represent an important clinical challenge, as these cancers do not respond to conventional endocrine therapies or other available targeted agents. Phycocyanin (PC), a natural, wa...

    Authors: Mathangi Ravi, Shilpa Tentu, Ganga Baskar, Surabhi Rohan Prasad, Swetha Raghavan, Prajisha Jayaprakash, Jeyaraman Jeyakanthan, Suresh K Rayala and Ganesh Venkatraman
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:768
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. Treatment of patients with non-metastatic, locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) includes pre-operative chemoradiation, total mesorectal excision (TME) and post-operative adjuvant chemotherapy. This trimodalit...

    Authors: J. Joshua Smith, Oliver S. Chow, Marc J. Gollub, Garrett M. Nash, Larissa K. Temple, Martin R. Weiser, José G. Guillem, Philip B. Paty, Karin Avila and Julio Garcia-Aguilar
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:767
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  20. CXC chemokine receptor 2 (CXCR2) has been reported to play an important role in the proliferation and invasion of gastric cancer cells. The present study aims to investigate the impact of CXCR2 expression on t...

    Authors: Zhenglin Wang, Hao Liu, Zhenbin Shen, Xuefei Wang, Heng Zhang, Jing Qin, Jiejie Xu, Yihong Sun and Xinyu Qin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:766
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. About one third of breast cancer survivors suffer from persistent severe fatigue after completion of curative cancer treatment. Face-to-face cognitive behavioral therapy (F2F CBT), especially designed for fati...

    Authors: H. J. G. Abrahams, M. F. M. Gielissen, M. M. Goedendorp, T. Berends, M. E. W. J. Peters, H. Poort, C. A. H. H. V. M. Verhagen and H. Knoop
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:765
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  22. In locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) preoperative chemoradiation (CRT) is the standard of care, but the risk of local recurrence is low with good quality total mesorectal excision (TME), although many stil...

    Authors: R. Glynne-Jones, N. Hava, V. Goh, S. Bosompem, J. Bridgewater, I. Chau, A. Gaya, H. Wasan, B. Moran, L. Melcher, A. MacDonald, M. Osborne, S. Beare, M. Jitlal, A. Lopes, M. Hall…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:764
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  23. Considering cell cycle dependent cytotoxicity, intercalation of chemotherapy and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) may be a treatment option in non-small cell lung cancer ...

    Authors: Yoon Ji Choi, Dae Ho Lee, Chang Min Choi, Jung Shin Lee, Seung Jin Lee, Jin-Hee Ahn and Sang-We Kim
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:763
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Resistance to chemotherapy is common in gastroesophageal cancer. Mechanisms of resistance are incompletely characterised and there are no predictive biomarkers in clinical practice for cytotoxic drugs. We used...

    Authors: Kasia Matula, Elaina Collie-Duguid, Graeme Murray, Khyati Parikh, Heike Grabsch, Patrick Tan, Salina Lalwani, Roberta Garau, Yuhan Ong, Gillian Bain, Asa-Dahle Smith, Gordon Urquhart, Jacek Bielawski, Michael Finnegan and Russell Petty
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:762
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Microcalcifications can be the early and only presenting sign of breast cancer. One shared characteristic of breast cancer is the appearance of mammographic mammary microcalcifications that can routinely be us...

    Authors: Andrés M. Castellaro, Alfredo Tonda, Hugo H. Cejas, Héctor Ferreyra, Beatriz L. Caputto, Oscar A. Pucci and German A. Gil
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:761
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. TP53 gene mutation is widely known as one of the determinants of impaired chemosensitivity. p53 is a tumor-suppressor protein in humans encoded by the TP53 gene. Some studies have shown that TP53 gene mutation an...

    Authors: Hiroki Osumi, Eiji Shinozaki, Mitsukuni Suenaga, Yosuke Kumekawa, Mariko Ogura, Masato Ozaka, Satoshi Matsusaka, Keisho Chin, Noriko Yamamoto and Nobuyuki Mizunuma
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:760
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Neovascularization and peritumoral edema are hallmarks of glioblastoma (GBM). Programmed cell death 10 (PDCD10) plays a pivotal role in regulating apoptosis, neoangiogenesis and vessel permeability and is impl...

    Authors: Nicole Lambertz, Nicolai El Hindy, Ilonka Kreitschmann-Andermahr, Klaus Peter Stein, Philipp Dammann, Neriman Oezkan, Oliver Mueller, Ulrich Sure and Yuan Zhu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:759
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  28. Head and neck mucosal melanoma (HNMM) is a rare type of malignant tumor that frequently exhibits postoperative recurrence and distant metastasis. Many clinicians administer postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy ...

    Authors: Wei Li, Yalian Yu, Hailong Wang, Aihui Yan and Xuejun Jiang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:758
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  30. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the second-most common form of leukemia in children. Aberrant DNA methylation patterns are a characteristic feature of AML. GATA4 has been suggested to be a tumor suppressor gen...

    Authors: Yan-Fang Tao, Fang Fang, Shao-Yan Hu, Jun Lu, Lan Cao, Wen-Li Zhao, Pei-Fang Xiao, Zhi-Heng Li, Na-Na Wang, Li-Xiao Xu, Xiao-Juan Du, Li-Chao Sun, Yan-Hong Li, Yi-Ping Li, Yun-Yun Xu, Jian Ni…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:756
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. The BRCA1 gene plays a key role in triple negative breast cancers (TNBCs), in which its expression can be lost by multiple mechanisms: germinal mutation followed by deletion of the second allele; negative regulat...

    Authors: Meriem Boukerroucha, Claire Josse, Sonia ElGuendi, Bouchra Boujemla, Pierre Frères, Raphaël Marée, Stephane Wenric, Karin Segers, Joelle Collignon, Guy Jerusalem and Vincent Bours
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:755
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. This study was designed to investigate the impact of liver cirrhosis due to chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection on the disease-free and overall survival of ovarian cancer patients undergoing a standard p...

    Authors: Basel Refky, Sherif Kotb, Tamer Fady, Ahmad Marwan, Doaa Abd El-Khalek, Waleed Elnahas, Mohamed T. Hafez, Eduard Malik and Amr A. Soliman
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:754
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  33. The aetiology of urological cancers is poorly understood and variations in incidence by ethnic group may provide insights into the relative importance of genetic and environmental risk factors. Our objective w...

    Authors: Mahiben Maruthappu, Isobel Barnes, Shameq Sayeed and Raghib Ali
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:753
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. Osteosarcoma is a typical bone cancer that primarily affects adolescents. The therapeutic activity of drugs is limited by their severe drug-related toxicities, therefore, a therapeutic approach which is less t...

    Authors: Bin Chen, Jie-Zuan Yang, Li-Feng Wang, Yi-Jun Zhang and Xiang-Jin Lin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:752
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  35. No screening programs are available for ovarian or endometrial cancer. One reason for this is the low incidence of the conditions, resulting in low positive predictive values for tests, which are not very spec...

    Authors: Stefanie Burghaus, Lothar Häberle, Michael G. Schrauder, Katharina Heusinger, Falk C. Thiel, Alexander Hein, David Wachter, Johanna Strehl, Arndt Hartmann, Arif B. Ekici, Stefan P. Renner, Matthias W. Beckmann and Peter A. Fasching
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:751
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Excellent dosimetric characteristics were demonstrated for volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) in preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). In a single-center retrospe...

    Authors: Leif Hendrik Dröge, Hanne Elisabeth Weber, Manuel Guhlich, Martin Leu, Lena-Christin Conradi, Jochen Gaedcke, Steffen Hennies, Markus Karl Herrmann, Margret Rave-Fränk and Hendrik Andreas Wolff
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:750
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  37. To evaluate whether apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value of gastric cancer obtained from diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) correlates with the HER2 status.

    Authors: Jian He, Hua Shi, Zhuping Zhou, Jun Chen, Wenxian Guan, Hao Wang, Haiping Yu, Song Liu, Zhengyang Zhou, Xiaofeng Yang and Tian Liu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:749
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that potentially play a critical role in tumorigenesis. Mounting evidence indicates that one specific miRNA: miR-320b is down regulated in numerous human cancers, in...

    Authors: Hantao Wang, Fuao Cao, Xu Li, Hua Miao, Jifu E, Junjie Xing and Chuan-gang Fu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:748
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. More than half of the patients selected based on KRAS mutation status fail to respond to the treatment with cetuximab in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). We designed a study to identify additional biomarkers ...

    Authors: Seung Tae Kim, Tae Jin Ahn, Eunjin Lee, In-Gu Do, Su Jin Lee, Se Hoon Park, Joon Oh Park, Young Suk Park, Ho Yeong Lim, Won Ki Kang, Suk Hyeong Kim, Jeeyun Lee and Hee Cheol Kim
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:747
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  40. Stomatin-like protein 2 (SLP-2, also known as STOML2) is a stomatin homologue of uncertain function. SLP-2 overexpression has been suggested to be associated with cancer progression, resulting in adverse clini...

    Authors: Fei Sun, Wen Ding, Jie-Hua He, Xiao-Jing Wang, Ze-Biao Ma and Yan-Fang Li
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:746
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  41. Clinical care of unstable spinal bone metastases in many centers often includes patient immobilization by means of an orthopedic corset in order to prevent pathological fractures. The aim of this retrospective...

    Authors: Harald Rief, Robert Förster, Stefan Rieken, Thomas Bruckner, Ingmar Schlampp, Tilman Bostel and Jürgen Debus
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:745
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  42. In 5–20 % of patients with cervical high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL), a positive margin after the loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) is associated with persistence/recurrence, but ...

    Authors: Menghan Zhu, Yuan He, Jan PA Baak, Xianrong Zhou, Yuqing Qu, Long Sui, Weiwei Feng and Qing Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:744
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  43. Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) has been shown to be associated with prognosis in various solid tumors. This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic role of NLR in patients with laryngeal squamous cell carcin...

    Authors: Xiu-Ping Tu, Qian-Hui Qiu, Liang-Si Chen, Xiao-Ning Luo, Zhong-Ming Lu, Si-Yi Zhang and Shao-Hua Chen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:743
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  44. Heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) are complex molecules involved in the growth, invasion and metastatic properties of cancerous cells. This study analyses the alterations in the expression patterns of thes...

    Authors: Iván Fernández-Vega, Olivia García-Suárez, Beatriz García, Ainara Crespo, Aurora Astudillo and Luis M. Quirós
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:742
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  45. Docetaxel monotherapy is one of the standard treatments for non-small-cell lung cancer in elderly patients. The addition of bevacizumab to docetaxel seems promising; however, the feasibility of this combinatio...

    Authors: Yusuke Takagi, Yukio Hosomi, Fumihiro Oshita, Hiroaki Okamoto, Nobuhiko Seki, Koichi Minato, Hiromi Aono, Kouzo Yamada, Yusuke Okuma, Naoya Hida, Takahiko Sakamoto, Yosuke Miura, Makiko Yomota, Akira Satoh, Hideo Kunitoh, Kentaro Sakamaki…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:740
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  46. Novel synthesized analogs of Aplidin, PM01215 and PM02781, were tested for antiangiogenic effects on primary human endothelial cells in vitro and for inhibition of angiogenesis and tumor growth in vivo.

    Authors: Bojana Borjan, Normann Steiner, Silvia Karbon, Johann Kern, Andrés Francesch, Martin Hermann, Wolfgang Willenbacher, Eberhard Gunsilius and Gerold Untergasser
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:738
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  47. Colorectal cancer (CRC) development is accompanied by changes in expression for several genes; but the details of the underlying regulatory procesess remain unknown. Our aims were to assess the role of epigene...

    Authors: Alexandra Kalmár, Bálint Péterfia, Péter Hollósi, Orsolya Galamb, Sándor Spisák, Barnabás Wichmann, András Bodor, Kinga Tóth, Árpád V. Patai, Gábor Valcz, Zsófia Brigitta Nagy, Vivien Kubák, Zsolt Tulassay, Ilona Kovalszky and Béla Molnár
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:736
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  48. The early age at retinoblastoma occurrence, the most common eye malignancy in childhood, suggests that perinatal factors may contribute to its etiology.

    Authors: Julia E. Heck, Negar Omidakhsh, Saeedeh Azary, Beate Ritz, Ondine S. von Ehrenstein, Greta R. Bunin and Arupa Ganguly
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:735
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  49. BRAF and MEK are component of the MAPK/ERK pathway and inhibitors of these proteins have significantly improved the outcome of metastatic melanoma. We report for the first time two sequential episodes of pneum...

    Authors: Violaine Giraud, Christine Longvert, Solène Houlle-Crepin, Claire Danel, Sylvie Labrune, Philippe Camus, Philippe Saiag and Thierry Chinet
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:732
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  50. Chemotherapy is an important therapeutic approach for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, a successful long-term treatment can be prevented by the occurring of chemotherapy resistance frequently, and ...

    Authors: Jian Zhao, Wenfan Fu, Hongying Liao, Lu Dai, Zeyong Jiang, Youguang Pan, Haoda Huang, Yijun Mo, Siwen Li, Guangping Yang and Jun Yin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2015 15:731
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