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Lineage analysis of early and advanced tubular adenocarcinomas of the stomach: continuous or discontinuous?
BMC cancer - 21 Jun 2010
Nakayama Takahisa, Ling Zhi-Qiang, Mukaisho Ken-ichi, Hattori Takanori, Sugihara Hiroyuki
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BACKGROUND: Eradication of early gastric carcinoma (GC) is thought to contribute to reduction in the mortality of GC, given that most of the early GCs progress to the advanced GCs. However, early GC is alternatively considered a dormant variant of GC, and it infrequently progresses to advanced GC. The aim of this study was to clarify the extent of overlap of genetic lineages between early and advanced tubular...
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