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  1. About 90% of new cervical cancer cases and deaths worldwide in 2020 occurred in low- and middle-income countries. This can be attributed to the low rates of cervical cancer screening in these countries. This s...

    Authors: Pauline E. Jolly, Anna Junkins and Maung Aung
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:53
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  2. Febrile Neutropenia (FN) caused by bacteria in cancer patients is associated with poor prognosis. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of FN and associated factors among cancer patients on che...

    Authors: Lambert C. Safari, Doreen Mloka, Omary Minzi, Nazima J. Dharsee and Rabson Reuben
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:52
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  3. The role of human parvovirus B19 (B19V) infection in malignant and benign lesions such as head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) and oral mucocele lesions has not been established. Herein, we examined...

    Authors: Haniyeh Abuei, Sepide Namdari, Tahereh Pakdel, Fatemeh Pakdel, Azadeh Andishe-Tadbir, Abbas Behzad-Behbahani, Mohammad J. Ashraf, Parnian Alavi and Ali Farhadi
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:51
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  4. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine has played a major role in ending the pandemic. However, little is known about the influence of COVID-19 vaccine on the efficacy of immunotherapy in patients with no...

    Authors: Yunfei Qian, Zhuxian Zhu, Yin-Yuan Mo and Ziqiang Zhang
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:50
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  5. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has become a severe burden on global health due to its high morbidity and mortality rates. However, effective treatments for HCC are limited. The lack of suitable preclinical mod...

    Authors: Hua-chuan Zheng, Hang Xue and Wen-Jing Yun
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:49
    Content type: Review Published on:

  6. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers all over the world, and dysbiosis in the gut microbiota may play a role in colorectal carcinogenesis. Bacteroides fragilis can lead to tumorigenesis by ch...

    Authors: Leila Dadgar-Zankbar, Aref Shariati, Narjess Bostanghadiri, Zahra Elahi, Shiva Mirkalantari, Shabnam Razavi, Fatemeh Kamali and Davood Darban-Sarokhalil
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:48
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  7. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) has a poor prognosis and is one of the deadliest gastrointestinal malignancies. Despite numerous transcriptomics studies to understand its molecular basis, the impact ...

    Authors: Amal Alotaibi, Veerendra P. Gadekar, Pranav Swaroop Gundla, Sumana Mandarthi, Nidhi Jayendra, Asna Tungekar, B. V. Lavanya, Ashok Kumar Bhagavath, Mary Anne Wong Cordero, Janne Pitkaniemi, Shaik Kalimulla Niazi, Raghavendra Upadhya, Asmatanzeem Bepari and Prashantha Hebbar
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:47
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  8. Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is a frequent malignancy with a high mortality rate. Specific inherited and environmental influences can affect CRC. Oncolytic viruses and bacteria in treating CRC are one of the innova...

    Authors: Akbar Ghorbani Alvanegh, Majid Mirzaei Nodooshan, Ruhollah Dorostkar, Reza Ranjbar, Bahman Jalali Kondori, Alireza Shahriary, Karim Parastouei, Soheil Vazifedust, Elmira Afrasiab and Hadi Esmaeili Gouvarchinghaleh
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:46
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  9. Parasite infection is one of the many environmental factors that can significantly contribute to carcinogenesis and is already known to be associated with a variety of malignancies in both human and veterinary...

    Authors: Niccolò Fonti, Francesca Parisi, Francesca Mancianti, Giulia Freer and Alessandro Poli
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:45
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  10. Leukemic patients are prone to infectious agents such as viruses due to dysregulated immune system resulting from infiltration of the bone marrow by malignant cells, chronic stimulation, reactivation of some v...

    Authors: Jemal Alemu, Balako Gumi, Aster Tsegaye, Abdulaziz Abubeker, Fisihatsion Tadesse, Abel Shewaye, Ziyada Rahimeto, Adane Mihret, Andargachew Mulu, Amha Gebremedhin and Rawleigh Howe
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:44
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  11. Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) represents one of the principal tumors of the head and neck. Human papillomavirus (HPV) and Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) are considered risk factors for the development and...

    Authors: Jose Manuel Vazquez-Guillen, Gerardo C. Palacios-Saucedo, Alondra Yamileth Alanis-Valdez, Andrea Huerta-Escobedo, Angel Zavala-Pompa, Lydia Guadalupe Rivera-Morales, Ana Carolina Martinez-Torres, Vianey Gonzalez-Villasana, Julio Cesar Serna-Hernandez, Silvia Judith Hernandez-Martinez, Edmundo Erbey Castelan-Maldonado, Martha Socorro Montalvo-Bañuelos, Cesar Alejandro Alonso-Tellez, Ethel Corinthia Sanchez-Fresno, Reyes S. Tamez-Guerra and Cristina Rodriguez-Padilla
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:43
    Content type: Brief Report Published on:

  12. Cervical cancer is one of lethal cancers in women. As a global concern, identifying important factors of cancer is a useful strategy for prevention. Due to the role of diet/nutrition factors for cancer, the pu...

    Authors: Elham Nazari, Malihe Hasanzadeh, Reza Rezvani, Marzieh Rejali, Mohaddeseh Badpeyma, Zeinab Delaram, Leila Mousavi-Seresht, Mahdieh Akbari, Majid Khazaei, Gordon A. Ferns and Amir Avan
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:42
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  13. Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is the major etiology of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the mechanism of hepatitis B-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HBV-related HCC) is still unclear. The...

    Authors: Shenghao Li, Liyuan Hao, Xiaoyu Hu and Luya Li
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:41
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  14. Currently, it is estimated that 15% of human neoplasms globally are caused by infectious agents, with new evidence emerging continuously. Multiple agents have been implicated in various forms of neoplasia, wit...

    Authors: Francesca Parisi, Niccolò Fonti, Francesca Millanta, Giulia Freer, Mauro Pistello and Alessandro Poli
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:40
    Content type: Review Published on:

  15. Breast cancer, although the most frequently diagnosed malignant tumor in humans, has a less clear etiology compared to other frequent cancer types. Mouse-mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is involved in breast cancer...

    Authors: Zsolt Fekete, Bristena Octavia Tertan, Lajos Raduly, Dan Tudor Eniu, Rares Buiga, Mihaela Galatar and Ioana Berindan-Neagoe
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:39
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  16. We previously found that age, sex and malaria were associated with KSHV in individuals from Uganda. In this study, we have evaluated these same factors in relation to EBV in the same specimens. Overall, 74% (o...

    Authors: Angela Nalwoga, Vickie Marshall, Wendell Miley, Nazzarena Labo, Denise Whitby, Robert Newton and Rosemary Rochford
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:38
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  17. Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) is well known to be associated with a lot of tumors, including lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, EBV-associated gastric carcinoma, and some other carcinomas with similar lymphoepithe...

    Authors: Li Zhao, Jian-Yong Ding, Yun-Lan Tao, Kun Zhu and Gang Chen
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:37
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  18. This report covers the case of 7 women affected by pathologies related to genital Herpesvirus and Papillomavirus. They were referred to the gynaecology outpatient clinic for colposcopic examination, and receiv...

    Authors: Maria Balestrieri, Caterina Carnovale-Scalzo, Anna Rosa Garbuglia, Maria Vincenza Chiantore, Luisa Accardi and Paola Di Bonito
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:36
    Content type: Brief Report Published on:

  19. Anti-PD-1 antibodies have been approved for treating several cancer. However, data regarding the safety and efficacy of these agents in HIV-infected patients with cancer is lacking, because these patients are ...

    Authors: Luling Wu, Jie Su, Junyang Yang, Ling Gu, Renfang Zhang, Li Liu, Hongzhou Lu and Jun Chen
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:35
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  20. Objective: to evaluate the efficacy of US, both qualitatively and semi-quantitatively, in the selection of treatment for the Covid-19 patient, using patient triage as the gold standard. Methods: Patients admit...

    Authors: Vincenza Granata, Roberta Fusco, Alberta Villanacci, Francesca Grassi, Roberta Grassi, Federica Di Stefano, Ada Petrone, Nicoletta Fusco and Stefania Ianniello
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:34
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  21. For women living with HIV (WLHIV), the burden of persistent HPV infection, cervical pre-cancerous lesions and cancer have been demonstrated to be higher than among HIV-negative women. As Ghana and other lower-...

    Authors: Patrick Kafui Akakpo, Sebastian Ken-Amoah, Nancy Innocentia Ebu Enyan, Elizabeth Agyare, Emmanuel Salia, Ibrahim Baidoo, Leonard Derkyi-Kwarteng, Matthew Asare, George Adjei, Stephen Ayisi Addo and Dorcas Obiri-Yeboah
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:33
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  22. Primary seminal vesicle Burkitt lymphoma (PSBL) is rare that is not frequently reported. Burkitt lymphoma is often associated with extranodal organs. The diagnosis of carcinoma in seminal vesical can be diffic...

    Authors: Menghua Wu, Xin Zheng, Wei Wang, Jing Chang, Meng Xue, Yu Zhang, Jian Song and Jimao Zhao
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:32
    Content type: Brief Report Published on:

  23. With HPV screening the specificity of screening positives has decreased, even with a cytological triage test. Increases in colposcopies and detection of benign or low-grade dysplasia are reported, not least in...

    Authors: Gisela Helenius, Gabriella Lillsunde-Larsson and Lovisa Bergengren
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:31
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  24. Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a heterogeneous tumor with diverse molecular pathological profiles. Recent studies have suggested the vital role of pyroptosis in tumor microenvironment. Howeve...

    Authors: Doudou Li, Dong Ma and Yuxia Hou
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:30
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  25. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) account for nearly 85% of the global cervical cancer burden, yet have the least access to high-performance screening. International guidelines recommend human papilloma...

    Authors: Sikhulile Moyo, Doreen Ramogola-Masire, Natasha O. Moraka, Leabaneng Tawe, Farzad Noubary, Kesego Motsumi, Godiraone Manowe, Boitumelo Zuze, Botshelo Radibe, Faith T. T. Hungwe, Terence Mohammed, Comfort Maphorisa, Roger Shapiro, Simani Gaseitsiwe and Rebecca Luckett
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:29
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  26. Authors: Vincenza Granata, Roberta Fusco, Sergio Venanzio Setola, Roberta Galdiero, Nicola Maggialetti, Renato Patrone, Alessandro Ottaiano, Guglielmo Nasti, Lucrezia Silvestro, Antonio Cassata, Francesca Grassi, Antonio Avallone, Francesco Izzo and Antonella Petrillo
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:28
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:18

  27. Glutamyl-prolyl-tRNA synthetase 1 (EPRS1) is an aminoacyl-tRNA synthase involved in the pathology of cancer and other diseases. In this study, we investigated the carcinogenic function, potential mechanism, an...

    Authors: Chen Yang, Xiaofeng Yang, Chenghao Liu, Jun Hou, Xueling Chen, Lianghai Wang and Xiangwei Wu
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:27
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  28. Cervical cancer is an important public health problem. Conventional colposcopy is inefficient in the diagnosis of cervical lesions and massive biopsies result in trauma. There is an urgent need for a new clini...

    Authors: Min Liu, Jianqiao Lu, Yong Zhi, Yetian Ruan, Guangxu Cao, Xinxin Xu, Xin An, Jinli Gao and Fang Li
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:26
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  32. Hepatitis B virus (HBV)-associated hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) does not respond well to current treatment options like sorafenib, and there is an urgent need for developing therapeutical strategies for HBV ...

    Authors: Jindi Zeng, Jiancheng Wu, Shuijiao Pang, Feifei Wang, Xin Yu, Shouhua Zhang, Junquan Zeng, Jinlong Yan and Jianping Lian
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:22
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  33. With cancer cases escalation, an urgent request to develop novel combating strategies arise. Pathogen-based cancer-immunotherapy is getting more consideration. Autoclaved parasitic antigens seem promising cand...

    Authors: Maha M. Eissa, Maha R. Gaafar, Layla K. Younis, Cherine A. Ismail and Nahla El Skhawy
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:21
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  34. Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), as a worldwide serious issue has been shown to lead to progression and poor outcomes in cancer patients. The underlying mechanisms for SARS-CoV-2 infection’s adverse effect...

    Authors: Maryam Bakhtiyari, Ayda Haji Aghasi, Sara Banihashemi, Arian Abbassioun, Chanour Tavakol and Hamidreza Zalpoor
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:20
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  35. HPV-31, -33, and -58, along with HPV-45 and -52, account for almost 11% of HPV-associated cancers. Our previous studies showed that after HPV-16 and -51, HPV-58 was common and HPV-31 was as frequent as HPV-18 ...

    Authors: Mina Mobini Kesheh, Sara Shavandi, Jalil Azami, Maryam Esghaei and Hossein Keyvani
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:19
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  36. In this narrative review, we reported un up-to-date on the role of radiomics to assess prognostic features, which can impact on the liver metastases patient treatment choice. In the liver metastases patients, ...

    Authors: Vincenza Granata, Roberta Fusco, Sergio Venanzio Setola, Roberta Galdiero, Nicola Maggialetti, Renato Patrone, Alessandro Ottaiano, Guglielmo Nasti, Lucrezia Silvestro, Antonio Cassata, Francesca Grassi, Antonio Avallone, Francesco Izzo and Antonella Petrillo
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:18
    Content type: Review Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:28

  37. Considering the high incidence rate of cervical cancer (CC) in Iran, screening is an effective way of reducing the impact of the disease due to early detection. Thus, the recognition of the factors affecting t...

    Authors: Sara Dadipoor, Azin Alavi, Zainab Kader, Hadi Eshaghi Sani Kakhaki, Shokrollah Mohseni and Nahid Shahabi
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:17
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:25

  38. Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer among women worldwide, but particularly affects women living in sub-Saharan Africa. Screening and vaccination programs are two prevention approaches that can red...

    Authors: Pamela Moussavou-Boundzanga, Ismaël Hervé Koumakpayi, Corinne Engohan Aloghe, Junie K. Chansi, Rose Revignet, Eric M. Leroy and Nicolas Berthet
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:16
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  39. Trichomonas vaginalis (T. vaginalis) is a microaerophilic protozoan parasite which is responsible for trichomoniasis, the most common non-viral sexually transmitted infection in the world. The infection greatly d...

    Authors: Zhenchao Zhang, Dongxian Li, Yuhua Li, Rui Zhang, Xianghuan Xie, Yi Yao, Linfei Zhao, Xiaowei Tian, Zhenke Yang, Shuai Wang, Xuejing Yue and Xuefang Mei
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:15
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  40. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is considered the second-deadliest and third-most common malignancy worldwide. Studying the carcinogenic mechanism of bacteria or their role in aggravating cancer can be precious. Fusobact...

    Authors: Nazila Bostanshirin, Bahareh Hajikhani, Amir Abbas Vaezi, Fatemeh Kermanian, Fatemeh Sameni, Somayeh Yaslianifard, Mehdi Goudarzi and Masoud Dadashi
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:14
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  41. Among human tumorigenic viruses, the role of Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been proven as one of the most important oncoviruses that are associated with a large number of cancers. Most cancers of the genital ...

    Authors: Vahideh Hamidi Sofiani, Parsa Veisi, Mohammad Rezaei Zadeh Rukerd, Reza Ghazi and Mohsen Nakhaie
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:13
    Content type: Review Published on:

  42. Adult T-cell Lymphoma/Leukemia (ATLL) is characterized by the malignant proliferation of T-cells in Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 and a high mortality rate. Considering the emerging roles of microRNAs (miR...

    Authors: Ali Shayeghpour, Mohammad-Moien Forghani-Ramandi, Setayesh Solouki, Amin Hosseini, Parastoo Hosseini, Sara Khodayar, Mahsa Hasani, Sepehr Aghajanian, Zeinab Siami, Mohadeseh Zarei Ghobadi and Sayed-Hamidreza Mozhgani
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:12
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  43. Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)-associated gastric cancer (EBVaGC) was a unique molecular subtype of gastric cancer (GC). However, the clinicopathological characteristics and prognostic role of EBV infection remains ...

    Authors: Guanghua Li, Zhihao Zhou, Zhixiong Wang and Zhao Wang
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:11
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  44. Bladder cancer is a possible outcome of chronic urinary schistosomiasis in many endemic countries. In Tanzania, the Lake Victoria area is one of the areas with the highest prevalence of urinary schistosomiasis...

    Authors: Coletha Yohana, Jared S. Bakuza, Safari M. Kinung’hi, Bruno A. Nyundo and Peter F. Rambau
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:10
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  45. Patients with cancer are at high risk for severe courses of COVID-19. Based on (pre-)clinical data suggesting a potential protective effect due to the immunomodulating properties of azithromycin, we have initi...

    Authors: Maximilian J. Mair, Agnieszka Maj-Hes, Alina Nussbaumer-Pröll, Rainer Puhr, Agnieszka Christenheit, Marlene Troch, Hannah C. Puhr, Angelika M. Starzer, Ariane Steindl, Sabine Eberl, Helmuth Haslacher, Thomas Perkmann, Christoph Minichsdorfer, Gerald W. Prager, Wolfgang W. Lamm, Anna S. Berghoff…
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:9
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  46. The stomach is a common site for extranodal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. While Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is the main established risk factor for primary gastric lymphoma, a fraction could be aetiologically assoc...

    Authors: Mayo Hirabayashi, Alexandra Traverse-Glehen, Jean-Damien Combes, Gary M. Clifford and Catherine de Martel
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:8
    Content type: Brief Report Published on:

  47. Historically, COVID-19 emerges as one of the most devastating diseases of humankind, which creates an unmanageable health crisis worldwide. Until now, this disease costs millions of lives and continues to para...

    Authors: Carl Gunnar Gottschalk, Daniel Peterson, Jan Armstrong, Konstance Knox and Avik Roy
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:7
    Content type: Review Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:23

  50. Human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes differ by geographic location. With the advent of HPV vaccination and HPV-based cervical screening tests in Ethiopia, a nationwide dataset on the genotype distribution of H...

    Authors: Awoke Derbie, Melanie Maier, Bereket Amare, Eyaya Misgan, Endalkachew Nibret, Uwe G. Liebert, Yimtubezinash Woldeamanuel and Tamrat Abebe
    Citation: Infectious Agents and Cancer 2023 18:4
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