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A practical prognostic peripheral blood-based risk model for the evaluation of the likelihood of a response and survival of metastatic cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors
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Identification of a Novel CD8+ T cell exhaustion-related gene signature for predicting survival in hepatocellular carcinoma
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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
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