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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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Predictors of recurrence free survival for patients with stage II and III colon cancer
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