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Nomogram to predict overall survival of patients receiving radical gastrectomy and incomplete peri-operative adjuvant chemotherapy for stage II/III gastric cancer: a retrospective bi-center cohort study
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Is low-dose computed tomography for lung cancer screening conveniently accessible in China? A spatial analysis based on cross-sectional survey
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Establishment of a risk prediction model for bowel preparation failure prior to colonoscopy
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Adult head and neck rhabdomyosarcoma: radiotherapy- based treatment, outcomes, and predictors of survival
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M1 and M2 macrophages derived from THP-1 cells differentially modulate the response of cancer cells to etoposide
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An electronic application for rapidly calculating Charlson comorbidity score
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Does colon cancer ever metastasize to bone first? a temporal analysis of colorectal cancer progression
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Resveratrol suppresses epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in colorectal cancer through TGF-β1/Smads signaling pathway mediated Snail/E-cadherin expression
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Depression and anxiety among people living with and beyond cancer: a growing clinical and research priority
Targeted Therapies for Cancer
Guest edited by Prof. Min Li and Dr. Yanis Boumber
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Microbiome and Cancer
Guest edited by Christopher Staley, Jacques Ravel, Sean Devlin
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Cross journal collection: Advances in CAR-T immunotherapy
Guest edited by Profs Marko Radic, Djordje Atanackovic and Tim Luetkens
Collection published: 30 June 2020
Cross journal collection: Precision Oncology
Collection published: 28 August 2019
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